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Newsletter 14
August 31, 2010 |
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New tools for the RANCH users! |
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If you cannot see this HTML newsletter, please click here to get it from the RANCH site. |
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"Concerning the Ranch in general I am satisfied as well ... I find the RANCHecker to be already very mature and stable working... Everything went out as planned, and I am very satisfied ... When I was studying the necessary process for uploading projects to the ranch I honestly thought -while it was understandable- it sounded a bit complicated but RANCHecker fills exactly this gap, and it does a very good job... People will appreciate this tool... It gave me no trouble at all and provided fairly reliable predictions concerning time and cost... I think the best part concerning the ranch is the support and transparency though... It was really a fruitious experience to work with the Ranch."
Benjamin Brosdau |
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| ^ RANCH Sync |  | | RANCH Sync runs in the background on your computer and automatically downloads your project when it is finished.
And if you have enough credits in your RANCH Safe, it can also download your animation frames as soon as they are rendered. Once your animations or still images are rendered by the RANCH, they are already in your computer!
Of course the traditional http and ftp downloads are still available.
RANCH Sync works with every 3D software supported by the RANCH.
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| ^ RANCHecker for Maxwell Render | | | RANCHecker for Maxwell Render is a standalone application which gathers all the resources needed by your scenes (no Pack'n'Go in Maxwell Studio required) and prepares them as verified, ready-to-render project archives, ready to upload to the RANCH.
Moreover, the program is able to benchmark your system and to give you cost/time estimations for your cooperative projects!
Please note that Maxwell Render >= 2.0.2.0 is required to run the benchmark and estimation functions. In any case we highly recommend you install this free update, as the MXI format has changed since 2.0.1, and older versions will not recognize MXIs generated by recent versions.
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| ^ RANCHecker for 3DS Max | | | RANCHecker for 3ds Max gathers all the resources needed by your scenes and prepares your projects as verified, ready-to-render project archives! RANCHecker is a 3ds Max plugin developed by RANCH Computing to help you prepare your project before uploading it to the RANCH.
RANCHecker for 3ds Max does all the dirty work for you: it gathers all the textures used by your scene, includes the GI maps if used, verify that you have correctly set up the rendering parameters, changes file paths if necessary, asks you the right questions... and finally compiles your projects in a .VU3 archive file, ready to upload to the RANCH! With RANCHecker, sending a project to the renderfarm is a trivial task.
That is why we highly recommend you use RANCHecker. If you don't, the project preparation will need more time, with a higher risk of error. It is easy to forget to check a square, to set the correct file paths or to include a missing texture when you do everything manually... particularly if you are in a hurry. RANCHecker will do all that for you!
RANCHecker can run on most 3ds Max versions, except very old ones.
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Ranch Renderfarm User Guides |
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| Main User
Guide |
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| Vue |
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| Maxwell Render |
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| Lightwave 3D |
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| 3ds Max |
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| Indigo |
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| Fryrender |
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