| Improved Sequence Check/View Speed |
The new Sequence Viewer loads your renderings in a fraction of time. Even HD sequences are loaded within seconds. (as it uses pre-cached data created at render stage)
As the client does check the images for failures while it copies them to your fileserver, broken frames are detected without any post-check-script that usally takes time and network traffic.
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| Local Data folder for client | - Render output
Fileserver access time is lower than before as files are written in one go.
During copy to the network drive, the file is analysed for errors.
A low cached version of the image is saved for fast sequence checking. - Temp folder
Your system temp folder will not be filled with render cache data. - Renderer preferences
Local renderer prefs for the same farm-wide configuration. - Scene File Caching
If a client gets the same scene to render again, then the client does not have to load/copy the scene from the slow network again. |
| Improved Cross Platform compability | All UI applications are now available on Linux and have the same full functionality as the Windows version (QT framework).
The server is available for Linux (console or UI).
Separated services/deamons and UI interaction for the client on all OS (including Linux KDE, Windows Vista) |
| Scripted Submission Plugins | - New plugins for Nuke, After Effects, Fusion.
- No compiled plugins any more.
- One plugin script for all OS and all versions.
- Editable for customization.
- No ActiveX installation required on windows.
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| Complete re-write, new core | RR 6.0 is a complete re-write.
In 8 years of Royal Render development features have been added and added to the old core.
The new core was build with all these features in mind. All features so they are handled in the core structure, the new core offers an easier way to write plugins.
And as we now from 8 years experience, we have build the core more flexible to handle everything that comes in the future. |
| Customizing possibilities | - The render and submitter default files have been extended and unified.
- Design your own website (or anything else) based on templates.
- New render applications: Tell Clients to automatically find your application and install your plugin.
- Image Format Reader/Writer Plugins
- Submitter Scene Parser Plugins
- Custom defined Submitter options for each render application (e.g. motion blur on/off)
- New render applications can be implemented with all RR features like submission plugin installation and application finder.
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| More job options | - Limit a job to a bit depth and run the 32bit renderer on a 64bit system for special jobs.
- Sequence Frame offsets and maximum Start/End +/- 500 trillion(US metrics) billion(EU metrics) (500x1012).
- Custom job parameter (boolean and value variables)
- Custom scene name/shot/version
- Custom user text (250 Letters Unicode )
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| Tile whole sequences | Instead of rendering a full frame of the sequence on each client, all frames are tiled in slices and each client gets a slice.
Benefits are: - If you have more clients than frames to render, you can use all clients.
- Big renderings are more likely to crash. If a rendering crashes, you loose only a slice and not the whole frame. (Same if clients are aborted on workstations).
- Less memory usage.
- Benefit compared to satellite rendering: If a satellite master client crashes or is aborted, then the whole frame ist lost.
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