Softimage 2012 Raysat Service

[David Rivera]

Hello. I´ve been looking at this page for the setup of satellite rendering:

http://xsisupport.com/category/satellite/

And I did set up "services" file on:

C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ 

Adding the line: 

mi-raysatsi2012_3_9_1_38 2564/tcp                #mental ray satellite Autodesk Softimage

That "2564" it´s the PID number that shows up when I execute the services running on the task manager.

So I figured that it will be the port which the Master would talk to the slave. I set this on the ray3host file, and the

name of the slave. I allowed this connection through the firewall by adding a new rule like the video mentioned, but no. It didn´t work.

So I went on and setup the port on 7027 like the video mentioned, also in these 3 places:

Services file

Ray3host file

Windows firewall - allowing connection through that port.

Then I activated SI2012 and opened a particular heavy-to-render file. Checked the log options on both: preview and render manager.

Log only displays normal local render: "' INFO : JOB  0.16 progr:    44.1%    rendered on 3DCompositor.16"

No other names on the log.

The name of the machines are: 3DCompositor, 3DCompositor2, 3DCompositor3.

These are the PC machine names, running windows 7. These names are the same on the local netgroup (named: postproduction).

So after all these setups, I looked for a solution on other posts/pages but most of the posts on AREA talk about max or maya.

Could anyone help me out as to what´s left to complete to have satellite rendering on these 3 machines?

Thanks.

David R.

[Nicholas Hong]

Hi David Rivera,

Please refer to the Softimage 2012 raystat.docx uploaded on https://beta.autodesk.com > Softimage > User Forums > Shading / Rendering / HQV > Satellite Rendering Setup > Softimage 2012 raystat.docx

If you would like to setup for other versions of Softimage it is possible too, just change the name of the service and ports. E.g I used 7026 for Softimage 2012, 7027 for Softimage 2013, 7028 for Softimage 2014 but I only keep an active service per instance, either 2012 or 2013 or 2014.

Thank you.

Regards
Nick