Anyone interested in programming a solution for this, drop me a line.

I've done a simple file-based system for DOS and Windows as a little personal
hack, but I'm now winding up specs for a Internet based solution. This should go
functional soon, and also is going to be used to help render the IMP project. The
more people helping me hammer on this, the better.

Buke wrote:

> Billy wrote:
>
> > How exactly would one go about rendering on two computers on a network. I
> > have a small LAN and am very interested in saving some time on my
> > rendering. I also need to know how to (if the file is split in half) put
> > the picture back together on one computer. Any help will be greatly
> > appreciated!
> >
>
> It is real simple. The network isn't going to speed things up but the two
> computers are. There is a pvm patch for pov but that isn't really worth it
> for two computers.
> Just render the scene split up ie : +s1 +e240 on one comp. and +s241 +e480 on
> the other. Then there are a couple of proggies that can put them back
> together. TGAglue comes to mind I know there are others but I can't think of
> them right now.
> Tgaglue used to be on the ftp.povray site but I'm not sure. Hope this helps.

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