Quantum Chamaeleon

tSNet

Quantum Chamaeleon is proud to offer tSNet, a distributed rendering tool, to the trueSpace community! You now have the capability to take advantage of all of your computers to reduce the time spent waiting for animations or large images to finish rendering, which in a commercial setting could mean a direct savings in total production cost.

Whether using one render node, where you can easily line up multiple scenes for batch processing, or up to 20 for a tremendous speedup in animation rendering, the tSNet system offers ease of use and gives you time statistics for each finished scene as well as projected time remaining for each scene as they are processed.

Besides distributing individual frames of an animation, tSNet can also distribute the rendering of still images across multiple machines running trueSpace 6.5. Images may be divided into as many as sixty-four pieces. Through this method, it is possible to create images larger than trueSpace's maximum image size, 8K by 8K pixels. Using tSNet the limit of 8K by 8K pixels applies to each section, giving the user a maximum render resolution of 64K by 64K, with the exact limit varying with available memory.

While you are rendering, the render preview window will display the frames for animations as they are received, or for still images, the completed sections will be displayed. tSNet is capable of producing TGA, TIF, PNG, BMP, JPEG and AVI files.

When rendering a scene using external resources such as texture maps, tSNet will in most cases transmit the necessary files to each render node automatically.

Adding render nodes couldn't be easier. With the click of a button, tSNet searches your local network and identifies new render nodes. Computers can even be added and removed during the course of rendering, if one suddenly becomes available or one needs to be freed up for another purpose temporarily.

Using the included trueSpace launching program it is even possible to have trueSpace automatically started on all participating computers at a click of a button!

tSNet is designed to work with trueSpace 5.x, trueSpace 6.x, and trueSpace 7.

Available exclusively through Caligari.

For patches, see Support.