ButterflyNetRender 4.5 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.

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.