Open Sourcing

I did a more thorough test on yadra last night and got some nice results. Instead of using a small animation as I did a few days ago, I used a 156 frame scene from the Creature Factory DVD (the scene of the creature walking out of the doorway). Here are the times for rendering on each machine separately:

Optiplex: 2hrs 8min 29sec
Latitude: 3hrs 27min 16sec
HP: 1hr 0min 12sec

I was a little surprised at how fast the vista machine was. I've done a lot to it to make it more streamlined, but nothing hardware wise.

Next was trying out all three together. The time was...drum roll please...36min 23sec. I was pretty happy with that! Adding those two extra computers nearly cut the rendering time in half. This should be a huge help when rendering out the final animation for the house that I'm modelling.

Speaking of that house, I figured out why the shadows weren't quite right, there were no shadows! The default lamp in blender doesn't cast shadows, so I just switched to a sun lamp or a spot and everything looks much more realistic. I'll get some pictures up next week hopefully.