RT Distributed Rendering couldn't obtain a licence.

[chuwaiting]

Hi everyone,

I have been trying to use the distributed rendering for my Vray RT 3.60.03. It works fine when I only select the render slave's card for rendering. However, when I try to use both of my local's and slave's resources for the rendering. It said "couldn't obtain a licence". The sales department said I may need another licence for the slave machine. But it doesn't make sense a buy a whole new licence for only a render slave machine. So is there any settings or so to solve this problem since I only want to borrow the resources from the render slave machine to boost up the rendering time.

Thank you.
Best,
Judith

[matanov]

Hi Judith,

This is how things work in almost every commercial render - if you want to use another machine for rendering, you need a license for it. There is a separate type for that and it's called a render node license.

p.s. you can always try to put the card from the slave machine into your main workstation

[chuwaiting]

Hi Judith,

This is how things work in almost every commercial render - if you want to use another machine for rendering, you need a license for it. There is a separate type for that and it's called a render node license.

p.s. you can always try to put the card from the slave machine into your main workstation

Thanks for replying! But what if I am just trying to use the card resources from the machine? The RT distributed rendering frame is still happening on my local workstation's screen. Does it still need a licence to do that?
My local workstation already has 4 GTX 1080. It still takes ages for a large poster size rendering. Any idea of boosting the rendering time up instead of buying another render node licence?
Thanks!

[matanov]

Does it still need a licence to do that?

Yes.

It still takes ages for a large poster size rendering. Any idea of boosting the rendering time up instead of buying another render node licence?

Share your render settings or even better - send me the scene.