Setting Up A Render Farm in Cinema 4D with Team Render

Who wants to render faster? Everyone!! We’ve covered this topic a bit before but with Team Render for Cinema 4D, you can set up a render farm quickly and easily. So, what is Team Render?

It allows distribution of frames for animation and buckets for still images to multiple computers on the network.

For bigger studios Team Render Server combines the advantages of a traditional client-server architecture which allows users to control all the render jobs via a web interface with Team Render’s decentralized data exchange. Team Render Server lets you directly upload, monitor and control your network rendering jobs, and view the log status messages from the server and all clients.

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Team Render replaced Net Render in R15+ and is now fully integrated into Cinema 4D and very easy to set up.

Watch Cinema 4D Team Render | Cineversity      Maxon’s Help Docs on Team Render

Be also sure to check Team Rendering Troubleshooting if you run into any problems.

CINEMA 4D – Render: Team Render (Setup)

This is a quick visual guide from Maxon, walking you through the steps of setting up Team Render.

After watching the video above, check out Cinema 4D Team Render Series from Cineversity. Rick Barrett of Maxon explains, “In this tutorial series, you’ll learn how to install, configure, use and troubleshoot Team Render. Within this introductory tutorial, you’ll learn about Team Render licensing as well as various implementations that allow you to manage Team Render from within Cinema 4D or via a browser-based user interface connected to a central server. You’ll learn the advantages and disadvantages of each Team Render technique, and recommended strategies for various types of users.”

Team Render Helpers

Team Render Notifier

From Maxon Labs, this is a plug-in that lets you know when a Team Render job is done, via mobile phone, email, or social media such as Twitter, etc.

Are your Plug-ins not showing in Team Render?

If your plug-ins work in previous Cinema 4D installations and also in previous Team Render installations, but don’t show up in the Team Render client, there’s a simple fix.

Check the old path default path, which is the plugin’s sub-folder inside your Cinema 4D application folder.

To fix the issue, open the menu File inside your Team Render client. Then, go to Preferences > Plugins > Search Path and enter your plugin folder manually.

Team Render in Third-Party Renderers

Below, check out a list of instructions to help you set up Team Render with third-party Renderers.

Corona: Learn about Distributed Rendering and how it works with Corona Renderer.

V-Ray: How to use Team Render (Distributed Rendering in C4D)?

Use Redshift To Render A Single Image Across Multiple Machines Using Cinema 4D

Jonathan Winbush takes you through the Redshift 3.0.14 update, including the addition of Team Render for single-image distributed rendering in Cinema 4D.

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