A couple of friends and I have decided to write some render farm
software for POV-Ray for our senior design project. Our current design
specs are to process animation only. The software is a proposed
client/server application. The server will initially designed to run
under linux and the client to run under Windows 95/98/NT.

Basically it should work like this. Clients connect to the server via
TCP/IP. A client sends the server the a POV src/ini files. The server
then tells each client to render a frame. This continues until all
frames are done. All frames are then uploaded to the server where they
can be downloaded. There are a lot of design guts we need to work out
before we start, but that should be how it is going to work.

I would appreciate all comments on this project. Any functionality that
anyone would like added, security concerns with the uploading of files,
etc. I have begun prototyping the client and I will post that at a later
date. I do not believe that we will implement PVM or PVM style stuff
because of time constraints. Sorry

I do have some questions about the GUI-Ext. I believe that we will
implement GUI-Ext in this application. If anyone has any insight on
GUI-Ext, documentation on the functions, or anything that may be
helpfully, I would appreciate it if they would share them with me. I
have read all the post to this news server about GUI-Ext already,
anything else would be cool.  I also think it would be great if the
Render Farm could set the render priority of POV-Ray. How do I contact
the POV-Ray team about possibly letting us do this?

ryan

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