Woohoo, after much pain working out how to use Cygwin (mostly working out 
which packages I needed installed), I've finally got both server and client 
working on my main PC. Now to remember how I did it so I can get the server 
working on my second PC...

Just one thing that took me ages to work out, I couldn't get it working 
until I stuck all my scene files under /usr/local/share/povray-3.6/scenes 
(Which translates to C:\cygwin\usr\local\share\povray-3.6\scenes under 
Windows). What was the reasoning behind this? All my scene files are 
normally stored on my D: drive (/cygdrive/d/...) where there's more space, 
but XRS seems to complain if it doesn't find a folder named "scenes" in the 
path.

Otherwise, this seems like a very cool addition to pov. Now to eliminate 
those radiosity tiling artifacts...

Ryan


"George Pantazopoulos" <go### [at] tomyaboutpage> wrote in message 
news:web.4503150abd91df05c0bad8570@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
> Here are my latest updates of MegapovXRS, the distributed rendering server
> and its companion, pyxrsclient.
>
> This update eliminates all "Memory Leak Detected" warnings observed,
> increasing the long-term reliability of the Server.
>
> pyxrsclient was updated to version 0.6.10 and is recommended with this
> release.
>
>
> Download:
> http://www.gammaburst.net/xrs/
>
> Enjoy,
> George
>
>
> -----
>
> megapov_xrs_server release history:
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> 2.1.1 - 9 Sep 2006
> ------------------
>
> - Solved memory leak issues when changing or aborting scenes.
>
> - Added povray license files to distribution (see doc folder inside build
> dir)
>
> - Fixed memory leak issue caused by exiting FrameRender() when doing
>  scene init while waiting for tile requests to arrive from client.
>  Now, FrameRender simply does the scene init upon receipt of the first
>  RenderTile() request from the client. This simplifies initialization and
>  cleanup and avoids memory leak problems.
>
> pyxrsclient Release History:
> ----------------------------
>
> 0.6.10 - 9 Sep 2006
> -------------------
>
> - Now, when a Render is stopped or aborted (such as when the Render 
> Preview
>  Window is closed), the client will force the Servers to stop rendering 
> (by
>  calling NewScene() on the Server with an empty command)
>  MegapovXRS 1.2.1-2.1.1 was updated to handle this more gracefully.
>
> - Cleaned up logic and error reporting in CreateServerProxies()
>
> - Render threads no longer abort from an xmlrpc fault response.
>  Cleaned up error message for exception handlers
>
> - added gtk.threads_leave() in the exception handler of the display 
> thread.
>  Now an exception in that thread won't hose the client anymore!
>
> - made queuing more configurable
>
> - Added LightsysIV directory to library paths. Added slashes to library
> paths
>
>
>

Post a reply to this message