A few weeks ago i did set up a network render system in Amazon’s cloud computing facility EC2. After doing so i, of course, also wanted to test it. For that i took an old project of mine and created a rendering of it with Luxrender. It took quite a while to render, and with my MacBook only it would have taken a few days. So this was an excellent test scenario for the EC2 Luxrender cloud rendering. So here’s the image:
As mentioned in some previous posts i have found two open source render engines that look really promising. To test them i did a quick render with the newest Blender and Luxrender builds. I wanted to know how big the difference between Luxrender and Cycles is, and how useful and realistic the results would look. So i built a testscene and rendered it to 200 samples per pixel with each of the engines.
And here is the result of the Luxrender test:
This post is about utilizing an Ubuntu server with ready buildt Luxrender running on EC2. Using an EC2 server for network rendering with Luxrender can easily boost computing power available to you. It assumes you are familiar with luxrender and know how to use the console/terminal/commandline to connect to a Linux server.
This guide builds upon my previous ones on how to set up an Ubuntu server on EC2 and how to install Luxrender on an Ubuntu server.
This post is about using a stripped down version of Luxrender on an Ubuntu 10.04 server for use on the most common EC2 instances. For those instances no GPU support is needed, a big part of the instructions on the luxrender wiki site can be skipped. The intention is to provide an easy step-by-step guide that can even be followed by inexperienced linux users.
Some days ago i posted an image rendered with Luxrender, an open source render engine. As always when rendering, i thought about buying a faster, better computer. As this is bad for the environment (and i do not have the money) i decided to use cloud computing. After some researching i found some pretty obscure instructions on how to use Amazon EC2 as a render farm. Fighting with these for quite along time i hope i can provide you a simple step by step guide on how to use Luxrender on Amazon EC2. Read More
While working for Bundschuh Architects, Berlin, i was looking for the ideal Open Source rendering solution. Allthough i found many different ones, there was one that was i could put to use without diving to deep into nerd stuff. Some of the OS renderers out there require to build your own build directly from the source code – these look more like a proof of concept to me. But Luxrender is quite advanced, with a user friendly interface, almost perfect integration to Blender, and it is pretty easy to use as well. The only negative thing is – it takes a real long time to render. But the images it renders are great:
