So my largest wish for Blender right now is to find a good render plugin or software setup for my planned local render farm.
The built-in render plugin for Blender is working wonders now due to it’s ease of use and functionality with one machine, but I know it may not work in the future if I wish to scale across multiple machines. My workload consists of rendering single complex pictures.
The built in Network Render can only assign one frame of an animation to one machine. Given that I only have one picture to render, only one machine can do it at once with the included plugin.
I’ve looked around and found other plugins and software like Bitwrk and Loki Render, but none of them seem to work how I want. Bitwrk is bizarre to understand, and Loki Render doesn’t run from directly within Blender.
I understand it may be possible to render from the command line with Python, but I simply don’t know an easy and intuitive way to do it with that.
So are they any other plugins that do what I wish? Or is Loki Render the only software that can parallelize with images? I may turn to it presuming nothing else, but I’d prefer to have something built into Blender.