Update
Latest version is now 0.7.1c - Tile rendering is working again, and several other improvements. I’ve also created a public AMI on Amazon Web Services that allows for an easy and scalable render farm in the cloud without needing to login and configure the grunt instances; just specify the master IP during creation, launch as many instances as you want, and you’re good to go! Find out more on the wiki, or later in this thread.
Greetings,
I just finished implementing several features and improvements in Loki, making it worthy of a new release!
You can download it from the SF project page here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/loki-render
For those new to Loki Render, it allows you to setup a very simple and easy render farm without needing to specify IP addresses, setup a network share, etc.
Some of the noteworthy improvements:
- Auto-discovery is now much more robust and can announce and listen across all interfaces on both master and grunts.
- Auto file transfer and caching can now be enabled/disabled via Preferences or on a job by job basis. Most users will stick with the default of enabled. Users working with large projects and an external distributed network file setups can disable the feature.
- Master IP address can be manually specified for cases where one or more routers must be traversed.
Since berlios.de took Loki’s website with it when it went down, Loki’s main website is now in wiki form:
http://loki-render.sourceforge.net/wiki/
Please feel free to download Loki and give the new version a whirl!
For those of you moving up from a previous version of Loki, make sure to delete the .loki directory in your user directory before using 0.7.0 to avoid conflicts.
You may have noticed that the wiki is a bit sparse; I was unable to recover content from the previous website (sigh), so please feel free to improve or add to the wiki in any way you see beneficial to the community; FAQs, tutorials, or whatever:-)
Cheers and happy blending:-)
EDIT: For those of you encountering problems or otherwise needing support, please open up a new thread in the Discussion tool under the Loki project on SF in the ‘Support’ forum here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/loki-render/discussion/support/
Please write steps to repro, how often it happens, and relevant output like a stack trace. Please limit each thread to just one problem. I appreciate your feedback and will do what I can to help.