#LexzFX & Network
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I just got LenzFX and Penello and they have the dreaded hardware
locks… does this mean there is no way to use these products for
network rendering? I tried fat fingering the 3ds.set file but it
seems to want the locks to be local. ( of course ) Am I missing
something? the doc's don't mention network rendering that I can see.
Thanks,
Tom
<< does this mean there is no way to use these products for network rendering?
I use Penello over a network. I copied the .pxp on to the slaves process dir.
and also the brushes to the slaves images dir although this shouldnt be
necessary
Ed
LenZFx have two versions: Single & Network. The network is quite expensive
($799 srp) However, it's a pretty clever pricing (fr. a developer's pov)
scheme.
Pennello is network compatible. View any of the readme file and you'll see it
mentioned.
By the way, you're several of the limited Pennello users out there
just like I'm. I was just curious of what you had use/planned to use
for this plug-in? [I'm using my exclusively for rotoscoped
video/film scenes. I found it quite hard to use and requires lot of
time learing all of the extensive brush parameters. The docs are well
written, as compared to other IPASes in its realm.]
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– TSL
Actually, there's only one version of LFX now… the network version.
And the price has been dropped to $295 for my Disk#1 customers and
$395 generally.
I must also mention at this point in the thread that even though the
current version of LenzFX is network compatible I must agree with a
comment earlier that the docs do not mention anything about the
network. No offense to Michelle Bousqet, but the docs are rather
lacking on technical information (ie network). I was rather
disappointed in that the stacker is a bit buggy and the user had to
go on the "road of discovery" to find KNOWN bugs and workarounds. I
can't afford to pay animators to perform that function. Network docs
are a MUST for IPAS docs. I don't expect a program to be bug free
first time out but I do expect documentation and addendums with
workarounds. I had a conversation with Jeff and Beau over at
Digimation about this and they promised network docs and some
workarounds to be posted here. On a positive note we have found
LenzFx to be visually stunning and I feel it is one of the best IPAS
on the market.
How should I address you… T-Spect Le
I got Pennello to do some of the effects that I have been doing using
Painter. I do agree that the amount of variations is daunting, but
no more so than Painter. I did also acquire the program with the idea
of altering rotoscoped images.
As far as LenzFX goes, I thought the network version was dropped in
favor of a single price version that did both. I just got back from
NAB and Digimation told me that it could be used over the network. I
am supposed to copy the LZF file to the networked machine. I've yet
to try it but we'll see…
Disregard my outdated status on LenZFx. You're right on that one.
I got your message re Pennello usages. Thanks for reply.
– TSL
We've been running LenzFX v1.3 over a Novell 3.12 network (dedicated server)
with only minor
hitch's except: we have some dummy 3DS slave systems (motherboards w/ram but no
hard drive) that don't seem to like LenzFX and report a missing key at the end
of the log file. We're working on this one.
Keep in mind that LenzFX alters the 3DS.SET file parameters so make sure any
slave nodes on the network have their 3DS.SET files updates to reflect the
changes.
Digimation's running it over Lantastic without a problems.
Thanks,
I'll do a compare on the .set files
Tom