ButterflyNetRender 4.56 Standard Studio

DESCRIPTION
ButterflyNetRender™ (BNR) Is a Animation Network Rendering Software Manager which is comprised of 2 applications:

• ‘ButterflyNetRender – Controller’: This will be installed on one machine and will be used the Control the Rendering scenes - It will communication with the BNR Clients.
• 'ButterflyNetRender – Client’: This will be installed on all the machines that will be used for ‘rendering’ the animation frames. The BNR Client can have 1 or more ‘rendernodes’ - that can be assigned to a ‘CPU’ on the machine.

A popular network rendering controller for Lightwave, Maya, Modo, Messiah Studio, 3DSmax, XSI, Digital Fusion, After Effects, Cinema 4D, Blender, 3Delight, VUE, Houdini, Mental ray, Nuke, Maxwell, Arnold, Terragen 2, MachStudio and more -  has been updated with new features – Including support for LightWave 10.1

New Features in version 4.56:

• Added support for Arnold, Terragen 2, and MachStudio
• Added support for LightWave 10.1
• Updated LightWave 10 Stereo settings 
• Updated LW Groups that supports running different LightWave versions
• Added more features to the BNR HTML Viewer 
• Updated Modo setup wizard for 64bit
• Updated Modo 'Stereo' L/R frames
• Updated XSI scene reader
• Minor bug fixes to improve performance
• Updated the online ButterflyNetrender Wiki (http://www.butterflynetrender.com/wiki)

New Features in version 4.55:

• Added support for Maxwell
• Added defined Post Command options for Scene types
• Web Viewer - Added Browser Selection for 'Folders', 'System Message window', 'Frame Status', Modo Object Tab and more!
• Web Viewer - updated 'Maya Scene' to include render type and image type options
• Added FIFO support for Priority Levels (so you can enable/disable per level)
• Added support for LightWave Camera selector plugin (BNR will prompt to build a render job per Camera and set the frame range)
• Minor bug fixes to improve performance
• Updated the online ButterflyNetrender Wiki (www.butterflynetrender.com/wiki)

Features:

• LightWaveHC 10 Support (BNR 4.5)
• LightWave 3D Support
• LightWave Automatic system setup
• Messiah Studio Automatic system setup(BNR 4.35)
• Read LightWave scene settings
• Frame/Thumbnail Viewer
• Arbitrary Frames
• Real-time RenderNode Feedback
• Rendernode CPU and RAM usage information
• Wake on Lan - Power saver feature
• Post Process commands (run custom commands after a scene is complete)
• Test Frame Feature
• View Frame Directory
• Email Notification *
• Split Frame feature (Slice frames across more then 1 rendernode) *
• HTML Viewer (View the Scene queue activied from Html pages *

* these features not included in the PE version

Advanced Features:

• Modo, Messiah:Studio Support
• Custom Scene type Support (any command line render application)
• RenderNode Groups and Collections
• RenderNode Priorities
• Built in Web server with SSL support (BNR 4.35)
• LightWaveHC 10 Support (BNR 4.5)
• HTML Viewer with Scene editing support (BNR 4.5)
• bnr_submit.exe - Command line program to add scenes into BNR

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REQUIREMENTS

• Operating System: Mac OSX/Windows98, WindowsME, WindowsNT4, Windows2000, WindowsXP or Windows7
• Clients: Intel, OSX, Linux RedHat 8/9/ FC3
• CPU: Intel, AMD, (Alpha for the Client) (OSX and Linux for the Client)
• CPU Speed: Pentium III 800mhz or better
• RAM:  64 MB for Controller, ~5 MB for Client
• A shared network directory that the Controller and Clients can access.
• A Static IP address/Name for the Controller that the Client machines can locate (ping).
• Supports Lightwave, Messiah Studio, Modo and Custom scene types

NOTE: Windows 98/NT/2000/XP/7 (Workstation) only support 10 connects per Shared path, so if you want to have more then 10 nodes share a directory, you will need to use a different file server Like:  Linux with Samba (Red Hat) or Windows NT Server.

NOTE: Windows® XP Home Edition is a consumer operating system which only supports 5 peer to peer networking computers and it does NOT support advanced networking such as domain authentication.