Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 2803

■ The Queue Monitor client provides a user-interface to monitor and control network rendering. It can be installed on any of the participating PCs. Network Rendering Server The Network Rendering Server must be running on any computer dedicated to rendering a job remotely. The Server communicates with the Network Manager and starts the program on that computer to render network processes. The Server has no user interface itself, but you can set various options for it from the Queue Monitor client. For example, you can specify the times of day that the Server is available to do network rendering. You specify which PCs are to be servers in the Job Assignment dialog on page 6481, a subdialog of Render Setup. Newton In the metric system, the newton is the unit of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram one meter per second. In 3ds Max, you can use the newton in dynamic simulations with objects such as the spring on page 890 and damper on page 881. Node Every object in a 3ds Max scene is represented in memory (that is, in the data structure of the scene) as a node, which acts as a container for an object's geometry, its transform controllers, assigned materials and modifiers, etc. Nodes also provide the building blocks for hierarchies, in which parent/child relationships are created by linking objects node to node. Two tools that display nodes are Track View and Schematic View. "Node" is distinct from the term "object," because the "object" refers more narrowly to geometry: the mesh, or NURBS surface, spline, or patch, and so on. The same instance of an object's geometry can be shared by multiple nodes. Each node in the scene is unique and can be identified as such by the commands and tools 3ds Max or plug-ins implement. 8058 | Glossary