Monday, 11 June 2012

Helping with Rendering

Hello!

I've been helping "crunch" renders on www.renderfarm.fi for a good while now, and use this service myself for the big rendering jobs/tests (especially at hires).  It is a free service to both render and contribute too.

At this time, I have set up a rendering "team" called Journeyman Project Tribute, and would be incredibly grateful if you could sign up for a FREE account, download BOINC onto your PC and start crunching :)

BOINC uses the resources of your PC to render other projects (including Journeyman runs).  You can set how much of your processor you want to use, or in multicore PCs how many of the cores to use for rendering.

If you sign up, please comment here so I can add you to the Jourmeyman team.  It would be great if we could all contribute; not only would we be helping render Journeyman scenes faster, but helping other artists as well :)

Best,

Andy
Posted by Andy C at 21:00

17 comments:

  1. tecssil12 June 2012 at 04:03

    Hi! I created the account on http://www.renderfarm.fi, joined the Journeyman Project Tribute Team and downloaded the Boinc Manager. But the project is not currently available on the Boinc Manager. What can I do?

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  2. tecssil12 June 2012 at 04:20

    Done, I was available to add the Project now!

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    1. Andy C12 June 2012 at 07:37

      Hi tecssil,

      Many thanks, I can see that you have joined the JMPT team :)

      Were you able to add the project to BOINC? Have you processed any jobs as yet?

      Thanks!

      Andy

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    2. tecssil12 June 2012 at 14:55

      Yes! I added the project and I've already processed some jobs!
      Glad I can help!

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  3. blitter12 June 2012 at 06:50

    Username: blitter

    :)

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    1. Andy C12 June 2012 at 07:38

      Hi blitter,

      If you go into your profile on renderfarm.fi you will see a link to show all renderfarm teams. Go here and search for Journeyman - it's the only team on there with this title. Click join team :)

      Once you have joined the team, try to process jobs using BOINC and let me know how you get on.

      Thanks!

      Andy

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  4. Wongfive13 June 2012 at 10:23

    Hi! Got a quick question. I've download BOINC and also registered on renderfarm.fi but how do you add the project on BOINC because I can't seem to find it.

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    1. Andy C13 June 2012 at 12:42

      Hi Wongfive,

      You can either add the project by following the instructions here (http://www.renderfarm.fi/boinc) or if that does not work, add the project through the command prompt as follows:

      The command is

      boinccmd --project_attach http://www.renderfarm.fi

      where is your account key, found under your profile - BOINC settings.

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  5. Wongfive13 June 2012 at 14:31

    Thanks for helping out! I'm now starting to process jobs.

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  6. Bryan13 June 2012 at 19:53

    Signed up, joined team, ready to compute.

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    1. Andy C13 June 2012 at 20:38

      Hey Bryan that's wicked news :) Thanks for joining - the more the merrier! Some background work going on at the moment in terms of cube mapping...won't say any more at this stage but exciting times ahead!

      Andy

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  7. mrsmith48715 June 2012 at 15:47

    Just joined your team-- glad to help in some small way!

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  8. Unknown18 June 2012 at 02:46

    I have joined the Renderfarm team and my 8-core AMD Bulldozer is ready to work for you.

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  9. Unknown18 June 2012 at 12:36

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  10. Anonymous18 June 2012 at 12:50

    I have joined your team as will1701a. My 8-core Bulldozer will be ready to work for you.

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  11. Anonymous19 June 2012 at 02:07

    Couldn't add renderfarm.fi to BOINC on my Macbook, but I'll try it on my Windows desktop soon. There doesn't seem to be a command-line argument similar to the one given above. Oh well, my desktop is much better anyway, so we'll see.

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  12. Anonymous15 August 2012 at 11:47

    Created a BOINC account to help the project:
    User: Herman

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