Greetings all, I'm working on distributing blender rendering with xgrid, too, but I'm in dire need of useful, timely documentation. The atpm.org tutorial (
http://www.atpm.com/10.06/blender.shtml) is outdated as of OSX 10.4. I've tried GridStuffer and it's a bit of a headtrip to make sense of the documentation there.
I'd like to just get blender to work once via the xgrid command. Here's what I've done to date:
xgrid controller running on OS X Server 10.4.4 -- The controller is receiving jobs.
xgrid agents running on a lab of G5 iMacs running OS X 10.4.6 -- all agents show up as available in XGrid Admin.
xgrid host and password environment variables set.
I have blender 2.41 on a G5 iMac on my desk. I can successfully render a frame from a .blend file via the command line:
blender -b /Users/lab_user/Desktop/blender-xgrid/Bionicle2Anim.blend -f 1
This is what I've tried as far as using xgrid:
xgrid -job run -in /Users/lab_user/Desktop/blender-xgrid/ -out /Users/its/Desktop/xgrid-out/ blender -b /Users/lab_user/Desktop/blender-xgrid/Bionicle2Anim.blend -f 1
The controller shows something running, but then it stops
real quickly and there is no output on the blender-xgrid directory.
Any tips? Like I said, the bulk of usable documentation seems to be for the pre 1.0 version of xgrid. Google "xgrid blender" and you'll see what I mean. Any help is greatly appreciated.
