Processing (Render Farms)

Articles that explain how to set up render farms in SimpleCloud.

Create a render farm
To use a render farm to render your animation projects, your SimpleCloud plan needs to include rendering. When this is in place, you can create render farms...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:30 AM
Render farms (Processing)
If your SimpleCloud plan includes farm rendering, you can use remote rendering or "rendering in the cloud". This means that your team can continue...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:30 AM
Edit a render farm
To make changes to a render farm in SimpleCloud: Log on as a studio owner or studio manager. Only these types of user have the permission to edit a ren...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Duplicate a render farm
You can save time when creating a render farm by duplicating an existing one. When you duplicate a render farm, you create a separate copy, and then you can...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Enable a render farm
If you have render farms that have been disabled, you can re-enable them so that they become available to your projects again. But before you enable a rende...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Disable a render farm
If you want to make a render farm unavailable, without losing any of its configuration, statistics or its job queue, you can disable it. Once disabled, the ...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Delete a render farm
If you no longer need a particular render farm, you can delete it from SimpleCloud. This will completely remove the render farm and its associations with an...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:31 AM
Software for render farms
Each render farm has rendering software that is installed automatically, based on your choices in the render farm settings. The software is usually chosen w...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:32 AM
Associate a render farm with projects
Render farms can only be used on the projects they are associated with. So if you want your project to use a render farm for processing, you must associate ...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:32 AM
Reboot a render farm
To reboot a render farm: Log on as a studio owner or studio manager.  Select Studio. Select your studio and then select Manage Studio. Select Pr...
Thu, 16 Sep, 2021 at 11:32 AM