What is 3DMAX Cloud Rendering?

As the name suggests, cloud rendering means that the "rendering" step in 3D production is transferred to the cloud.

Cloud rendering is a small branch of the cloud computing industry, mainly serving the visual industry, such as film and television animation, visual effects, architectural visualization, and game studios. Think of it as paying to rent a cloud computer, upload a local 3D file to the cloud virtual computer, and let it do the "rendering" of the composite image for you.

Advantages of Cloud Rendering:

1.Don't eat local hardware configuration.

Because the rendering process is memory-intensive, cloud rendering will not occupy the performance of local hardware, which can save the budget for upgrading hardware.

2.Processes that do not occupy the local computer.

In rendering, the most uncomfortable thing is that the computer can't be used for other things, which means that it can't be seen but not used. After the current cloud rendering uploads the model, the local computer can do whatever it wants, or even shut down.

3.Multiple images are rendered at the same time.

No matter how high our computer configuration is, when we encounter many tasks, we can only wait for the tasks to be rendered one by one. Cloud rendering solves this problem by rendering multiple tasks at the same time, saving a lot of time and using it for other things.

4.Online rendering for faster rendering.

For the local computer, if you are in a hurry to produce a picture, there is no way to choose to speed up, and cloud rendering is different, for example, Xuanyun can render the same task on up to 10 machines, and produce the map in minutes, so that you can get the map quickly if you are in a hurry.

Cloud rendering is a solution based on cloud services for the 3D rendering industry, which can be transferred to the cloud by submitting files with one click, rendering in the cloud, and helping the local computer to do other work without delaying the local computer.

Advantages of Cloud Rendering:Easy to useOnce installed, it only takes a few clicks to enter the necessary settings and start rendering.

Smart featuresRender Cloud improves workflow efficiency by checking anything that has been uploaded and uploading only new and changed parts of the scene. In addition, users can quickly see their rendering progress from the live preview; Support a variety of software and renderers, support a variety of channel rendering, can customize the rendering scheme according to the demand, support high-parameter large image worry-free rendering, can be viewed in real-time progress on mobile phones, and can be viewed through WeChat on mobile phones, and the result files can be shared.

Velocity. As a one-stop cloud rendering platform, Render Cloud has massive computing resources, data security assurance, extreme rendering performance, supports batch rendering of multi-angle tasks at the same time, rendering is efficient and convenient, and Render Cloud uses high-performance servers, which are stable and reliable, and can meet the needs of users for large-scale emergency rendering.

Hello, I will introduce you to the use of Xuanyun cloud rendering, Xuanyun cloud rendering platform is the largest rendering cloud rendering platform in the country, with stable rendering and good service, which is deeply liked by the majority of users.

Here's a brief introduction to how to use cloud rendering.

3. After the installation is completed, we need to register an account, what needs to be paid attention to, if you are an individual, choose an individual user, if you are an enterprise, choose an enterprise user to register.

After all the settings are set, you can select Xuanyun in the rendering menu bar to submit the rendering task, or you can directly drag the remaining rendering task to the rendering client to submit.

1. Self-service rendering.

In 3dmax, submit the finished scene to the Render Cloud platform, set the parameters, select the rendering mode, and check the Render Channel Graph submission task on the Render Cloud plug-in page to start rendering.

Go to the Render Cloud client to view the rendering progress.

2. If the amount of rendering is relatively large or the parameters are relatively high, you can directly contact the official customer service to customize the rendering solution.

1.Fast rendering

2.Batch rendering

Rendered cloud rendering can render multiple files at the same time, multitasking, and save a lot of time, which is not possible with local machines.

3.Free up local space

As we all know, rendering sometimes takes up all of our local computer space, which is not only slow and stuttering, but also burns out some machines with poor heat dissipation, greatly depleting the life of your local computer and increasing the cost.

Once your job is successfully submitted to Cloud Render for rendering, your 3D Max software can be shut down and your local computer can be shut down. By offloading the work to cloud rendering, your local computer is freed up and wear and tear is reduced while you can continue modeling, drawing, and completing other tasks.

4.Ready to use

5.24/7 customer service

Cloud rendering has good services. Although users are almost self-help throughout the entire process of using cloud rendering, it is inevitable that they will still encounter problems, and in order to deal with them in a timely manner, most render farm manufacturers are equipped with 7*24 hours customer service. Rendered cloud rendering also offers a 24 7 service.

First of all, the rendering of the local computer is slow. If those special effects movies were rendered on a local computer, they would have to be rendered for hundreds of years. And during the rendering process, the computer's CPU will be fully occupied, and if there is a lag or other problem, you must start rendering again.

With ordinary computer configurations, it is difficult to achieve efficient rendering.

Second, there are companies that choose to build small render farms. This cost is relatively high, and it is not suitable for individuals or small companies at all.

Rendering with the cloud is mainly due to the following:

Reduce rendering steps: After a task is submitted to the cloud for rendering, you do not need to continue rendering locally and can continue to do other things, improving the work efficiency of designers.

Faster rendering: Cloud rendering can take advantage of the computing power of high-performance computers in the cloud to dramatically reduce rendering time.

Cost savings: Cloud rendering does not require the purchase of expensive rendering equipment, nor does it require maintenance and upgrading of hardware equipment, which can greatly reduce the cost of designers.

Scalability: Cloud rendering can increase or decrease computing resources as needed to meet the rendering needs of designers.

In short, cloud rendering can improve the work efficiency of designers, reduce costs, and is one of the indispensable tools for designers.

The steps to use cloud rendering are as follows, using 3DMax Vray as an example:

1. Open the max file and submit the task through the plug-in

2. Click "One-click Rendering" under the "Render Cloud" menu to submit the task

Select the camera you want to render.

Select a rendering mode.

Select the photon ratio.

If local photons are used, this setting does not take effect, and the local photon file is called first, and the photon mode behind the camera is displayed as the photon file name.

Select the render elements according to your needs.

Render elements can be color channels, AO channels, and material channels.

The AO channel supports modifying the radius value and the fine grip score value. The larger the radius value, the heavier the line shadow effect, as shown in the screenshot, the AO channel effect is also affected by the file unit setting (centimeters, meters, inches, etc.).

Composite PSD Channel: Combine the positive image and rendered elements (including the selected color channel, AO channel, and material channel) into a PSD format**. If you want to only push PSD files at **time**, you can select "Push PSD channel only" in the client-side rendering settings.

Set the output gamma

If the file needs to be output, set it here. The default is that in most cases, the default parameters are sufficient.

If gamma is not enabled for the file, this setting is grayed out and cannot be selected.

Confirm the plot format.

If you need to change the format, you can do so in the file and resubmit.

You can also click on the ellipsis after the format to change it in the same way you would in a file.

vfb file.

Under normal circumstances, Render Cloud can recognize the asset files of the outer space auspicious part identified in the VFB window, and does not need to use this function.

Due to an interface error in the vray version and the version in it, the above version cannot obtain the external asset files identified in the vfb window, such as the LUT file.

In this case, you need to manually identify the asset file through this function, otherwise the corresponding asset cannot be uploaded, which will affect the final rendering effect.

After confirming the above information, click "Submit Render".

3. Submit the render

After the information in the plug-in panel is confirmed, click "Submit Rendering", and the client will start to analyze the project files used in the scene, such as textures, **, optical area networks, etc., and the task will be uploaded after the analysis is completed.

4. Wait for the rendering to be completed, it will be automatically sent back to the local computer, and the local computer can do other creative ideas during the rendering, which saves more time.

When you are too busy to do by yourself, you can use cloud rendering, which can help you save a lot of rendering time, for example, if you need to render a graph for 12 hours locally, cloud rendering will be rendered by 12 machines at the same time, and the drawing time will be shortened to 1 hour with 24 machines, and the drawing time will be shortened to hours with 24 machines.

At the same time, cloud rendering does not occupy the amount of local computing, and the computer can still work normally during cloud rendering.

It is recommended to use Renderbus cloud rendering to compare the difference between local rendering.