Moho Forum

Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to:

1) Do a network render (let all networked computers share the render)

2) Transfer Moho's actions from one file to the other

Thanks in advanced!

kingace wrote:Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to:

1) Do a network render (let all networked computers share the render)

It is possible to do a render on the command line with moho. You will need to break out individual pieces of your animation into chunks to do a network render (i.e. moho can't break up a file for individual machines). But you can have individual moho files rendered on separate machines at the same time with the command line interface. Let me know if you need details on how this would be done.

jorgy

If you use a render manager, like the free Dr. Queue you can let that spread you render over several machines. You'll have to render to an image sequence though.

The actions go with the Moho file so if you insert one Moho file into another, the actions for the original file are available in the new one.

Alan

jorgy wrote:

kingace wrote:Hello,

I was wondering if it was possible to:

1) Do a network render (let all networked computers share the render)

It is possible to do a render on the command line with moho. You will need to break out individual pieces of your animation into chunks to do a network render (i.e. moho can't break up a file for individual machines). But you can have individual moho files rendered on separate machines at the same time with the command line interface. Let me know if you need details on how this would be done.

jorgy

Some details would be terrific, thanks alot for the offer!

If you use a render manager, like the free Dr. Queue you can let that spread you render over several machines. You'll have to render to an image sequence though.

It looks like I'd need to write a shell script to make it work with moho?

kingace wrote:Some details would be terrific, thanks alot for the offer!

Here's some info on command-line rendering:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1318

kingace wrote:It looks like I'd need to write a shell script to make it work with moho?

Possibly. I'm not familiar with Dr. Queue, but Moho only handles the rendering aspect. Dr. Queue (or a similar program) should handle the coordination of multiple machines, networking, syncing, etc. This may require some scripting by you, or you may just need to enter in the command line text to launch Moho.

Cool.

So I suppose, I could have the Moho file on 3 computers, and on the first computer, I only render frames 0-300, second, 301-600, third 601-900, and then use a movie editor to combines the videos?

kingace wrote:Cool.

So I suppose, I could have the Moho file on 3 computers, and on the first computer, I only render frames 0-300, second, 301-600, third 601-900, and then use a movie editor to combines the videos?

Yes, that is probably the easiest way to do it without too much trouble or extra software. Here is a post from LM on how to do it:

http://www.lostmarble.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1318

jorgy