Aerial Bear wrote:
> Does anyone know of a tool that will manage animations across servers
> regardless of platform?
> 
> I have a small network running both linux and windows and I'd like an easy
> tool for parceling animation frames across the network.
> 
> I'm thinking of writing one in Java but don't want to re-invent the wheel.
> 
> The tool I'm imagining would also allow you to split a single frame across
> servers as well.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I, too, have a renderfarm tool.
http://www.buckosoft.com/bsac/
It's written in C++.  The gui is a browser.  It supports SMP on Windows and Linux.
Right now i'm still using POV 3.1 because i want to custom compile POV 3.5.
My M$ pov 3.1 is thin, command line only; 32bit povdos without the menus.
Linux uses standard povray.
My bsac server is thin too.  900KB runtime memory on Linux and 2MB on Windows;
leaves more memory for POV ;) .

dik

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