Post by: TrueSkimmer on October 24, 2005, 01:40:00 AM
I have been fiddeling around with 3d studio a bit, and the thing that bothers me most, is that even a simple scene takes pretty time to render.
Since i have a xbox (softmod - tnx guys) thats doing absolutely nothing for like 95% of its time, i was hoping i could harness its power to take some of the processor intensive 3D tasks of my own PC.
I started searching on xbox-scene, but all i can actualy find is some blathering about photoshop, and game rendering.
Am i correct to asume there is as of yet no xbox standalone renderer available?
Followup: Would it be very hard to make something like this work?
Post by: TrueSkimmer on October 24, 2005, 03:13:00 AM
Perheps there is an admin/mod who can push it over there?
Post by: TrueSkimmer on October 24, 2005, 03:31:00 AM
Can We Make A Render Farm From Using Xbox's?
This is more like a theoretical exploration of using some kind of linux cluster for rendering.
I was more thinking in the lines of a stand alone program one could simply start from the Dash. The program would than wait for a 'jobfile' to apear in a working location. The jobfile would then specify the scene file and which frames to be rendered by the machine.
In this way, i think, there would be the least overhead, and no need for complex networking structures.
Post by: darkstalker on October 26, 2005, 11:54:00 AM
QUOTE(TrueSkimmer @ Oct 24 2005, 06:06 AM)
Found something:
Can We Make A Render Farm From Using Xbox's?
This is more like a theoretical exploration of using some kind of linux cluster for rendering.
I was more thinking in the lines of a stand alone program one could simply start from the Dash. The program would than wait for a 'jobfile' to apear in a working location. The jobfile would then specify the scene file and which frames to be rendered by the machine.
In this way, i think, there would be the least overhead, and no need for complex networking structures.
Can We Make A Render Farm From Using Xbox's?
This is more like a theoretical exploration of using some kind of linux cluster for rendering.
I was more thinking in the lines of a stand alone program one could simply start from the Dash. The program would than wait for a 'jobfile' to apear in a working location. The jobfile would then specify the scene file and which frames to be rendered by the machine.
In this way, i think, there would be the least overhead, and no need for complex networking structures.
You definitely don't want an X-Box rendering farm. It would probably take longer than just on your single PC.