If you would like to use the render farm of the Faculty of Architecture, it is required that you have installed the render engines Arnold, RenderMan or Mental Ray on your computer. It is only possible to use the render farm and BK Renderfarm connector with Autodesk Maya 2022 (and Maya 2018 for Mental Ray). To use the render farm, you need to download RenderMan from Pixar and Mental Ray from NVIDIA. Arnold comes with Maya.
Download
- Windows: BK Renderfarm connector (version 6.5.1). If you get a warning from Windows Defender Smartscreen, click on More info and choose Run anyway.
- MacOS Mojave (10.14) and lower: BK Renderfarm connector (version 6.4.2). If you cannot open the file after download, open with Finder your Downloads folder and open with right-click.
Changelog
6.5.1
- Fixed publishing (copying files) to BK Renderfarm which failed due to removed Bifrost attributes.
6.5
- Added support for RenderMan 23 and later.
- Removed support for RenderMan 22 and earlier.
6.4.2
- Added the option for Maya 2020 in installer for macOS. For the time being Maya 2020 is not supported by the render farm.
- Removed the options for Maya 2016, 2016.5 and 2017 in installer for macOS.
6.4.1
- Fixed error that Renderman is not supported by the BK Renderfarm.
6.4
- Fixed warnings about missing Mental Ray nodes when using other render engines than Mental Ray.
- Added Adhok Texture Tools with fixes to be usable with other render engines than Mental Ray.
- mrtool.exe is now 64-bit.
- Fixed detection by installer for Windows whether Maya is running during installation.
- Added the option for Maya 2019 in installer for macOS. For the time being Maya 2019 is not supported by the render farm.
6.3.3
- Fixed contents of sourceimages not being copied when using other render engines than Mental Ray.
6.3.2
- Removed warnings that Arnold and RenderMan are experimental.
- Removed obsolete code (borderStyle).
- UI changes depending on chosen render engine.
- Fixed UI squeezing into upper left corner of the main window caused by connection error with the BK Renderfarm.
- Updated mrtool from version 6.1.6 to 6.2. This fixes also protocol version mismatch.
- Fixed part of text missing in installer for Windows.
- Added the option for Maya 2018 in installer for macOS.
6.3.1
- Added Arnold and RenderMan for use with the BK Renderfarm.
- Added dialog box warnings that Arnold and RenderMan are experimental.
6.3
- Original release from TOI.
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