Network rendering in mental ray for Maya

In Maya, there are two ways to set up network rendering:

• Maya network rendering (see Managing Maya network rendering and Network render with the render command line utility)
• mental ray network rendering using Satellite and Standalone (see Network rendering using Satellite and Standalone)

Network rendering using the render command line utility

Each Maya multi-user network subscription license supports interactive rendering on one machine and batch rendering on five machines. You can therefore perform mental ray for Maya rendering on up to 6 machines.

Note: With batch rendering, Maya runs independently on each machine, unlike Satellite or Standalone rendering, which relies on communication with the master mental ray for Maya.

Batch rendering licenses are only available for multi-user network subscription licenses. Batch rendering licenses are per host, so you can use all cores on one machine for each batch render.

Note: Each batch render node must have its ADLM framework in place.