George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> 
> Will do. It will be a while yet before my distributed render program is
> complete. I have completed 90% of the GUI (using C++ and MFC), and starting
> the 'guts', but its taking time since I'm busy with school and also trying
> to do it right. But in the meantime I'm experimenting with POVRay's
> radiosity, so if I find something that works well I'll discuss it with the
> newsgroup

As i have said before a distributed rendering system that does not run on
all common platforms (Windows, Unix, Mac) won't have widespread success
IMO.  As you might have noticed the original posting of this thread was
asking for a solution for a unix system.  Using scripts for this purpose
is probably a good idea since they will be useable on different system
without much trouble.

Solving the radiosity problem by copying the pretrace data to all
computers isn't a complete solution of the problem, most radiosity scenes
rely on the data gathered during the final trace as well.  NTL
automatizing the pretrace and the afterwards distribution of data would
already be very helpful.

Christoph

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