Patchwork Lightmap Render
Installing Patchwork Lightmap Render
Install the Patchwork Lightmap Render software on the computers you wish to use for distributed rendering.
This application must be run manually in order to provide the distributed rendering service. If you restart Windows on one of the computers functioning with Patchwork Lightmap Render, you must also restart the Patchwork Lightmap Render application.
Warning
If you have installed Patchwork Lightmap Render on computers that are listening for a render task, but which aren't found by Patchwork 3D in the unit discovery window, verify that no network agents are set to block discovery broadcast packets.
If you do not have access to the network configuration in order to disable broadcast filtering, you can manually enter the name or the IP address of the Patchwork Lightmap Render machines.
How Patchwork Lightmap Render Machines Work ?
Should the Patchwork Lightmap Render application crash, it will restart itself automatically.
A Patchwork Lightmap Render machine can only participate in a single rendering session at a time. If another instance of Patchwork 3D sends a request for the computer's availability while it is already participating in a render session, the Patchwork Lightmap Render machine will send back the status "Busy." Patchwork 3D will continue to attempt to open a session at regular intervals until a session is opened or the rendering is completed on the available machines.