MayaBatch.EXE and Spider are all...
My (limited) understanding is that you only need to install mayabatch.exe on each of your rendering nodes. You'll then need a network render manager such as Spider to manage the breakup of your rendering job across your 5 nodes.
You can find spider at:
https://www.stationx.com/index.htm
In this configuration you cannot render directly to AVI or other compressed movie formats as each machine will be working on a frame-by-frame basis. Each node will produce its frames as single images (you'll be able to specify the image type). Once the render is complete, you'll then have to use a tool such as VideoMach to create a movie file from your images.
My disclaimer: I have only researched this as I plan on implementing this system myself at some point in the near future. Therefore, I'd be VERY interested in hearing about your experience.
That'll do donkey... that'll do...
Last edited by rich; 18-11-2003 at 03:12 PM.