Control VRay/Vred distributed rendering

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Problem:

You want to be able to start and close the distributed client/server on a rrClient.

The Client should be disabled while the process is running.



Solution:

1.Open rrControl, right-click on a client, choose Other/Edit New Script.

2.Open the Execute Commandline script.

3.Change
CmdLine=          'echo "Hello"<NL>'
CmdLine=CmdLine+  'echo "I am alive""<NL>'
into 
CmdLine="C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\VREDPro-6.67-x64\\bin\\WIN64\\VREDClusterServer.exe"

4.Save the script as VRed_Distributed_Start.py

5.Now change 
CmdLine="C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\VREDPro-6.67-x64\\bin\\WIN64\\VREDClusterServer.exe"
into 
CmdLine="<rrBin>rrKillWait 1 VREDClusterServer.exe"

6.Save the script as VRed_Distributed_Stop.py

7.Open rrConfig, tab Client Config and select all clients.

8.Add VREDClusterServer.exe to "Disable if process found:"