Autodesk 12812-051462-9011 User Guide 3 - Page 2849

RAYHOSTS File The RAYHOSTS file is a text (ASCII) file that lists the name of host systems capable of mental ray rendering on page 6230 in a distributed network. You turn on distributed rendering on the Render Setup dialog > Processing panel > Distributed Bucket Rendering rollout on page 6326. Each line in the RAYHOSTS file contains the name of a host system. The host name can be followed by a semicolon and a port number of the service to connect to. The host name with or without the port number can also be followed by white space and a list of mental ray command-line parameters. See the manual, Rendering with mental ray, for descriptions of the mental ray command-line options. When you click Add on the Distributed Bucket Rendering rollout and use the Add/Edit DBR Hosts dialog on page 6334 to add a host or satellite processor, this updates the RAYHOSTS file. So does clicking Remove to remove a processor. The RAYHOSTS file is named max.rayhosts. By default, it is located in the \mentalray directory inside the program folder. You can change the default location by creating an environment variable named MAX_MI_ROOT, where is the 3ds Max version number, and setting the variable's value to the path of the max.rayhosts file you want to use. Real Time By default, viewport animations play in real time, skipping frames where necessary. You can turn this off by clicking Time Configuration in the time controls, and then turning off Real Time in the Playback group box of the Time Configuration dialog on page 7565. When Real Time is turned off, all frames are displayed during playback. The playback may appear slow, but you'll know that you're seeing every frame. You can also speed viewport animation by minimizing your viewports to quarter size. 8104 | Glossary