SESSION 3: HOW TO USE A 3D CLOUD RENDERFARM
TOPIC: UNZIPPING ON SERVER

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We continue our free session on use of cloud renderfarm, www.renderingfox.com, worlds most cost effective 3d renderfarm. Use of renderfarm for rendering 3d projects is extremely beneficial to enhance your business process and increase business competitiveness. Use of  3d renderfarm will not only reduce the rendering time of your projects but will also reduce your project costs thus giving you a double gain. 

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Previous post we learnt of the two ways of uploading files to be rendered onto the server. As mentioned I would personally suggest the use of FTP servers like filezilla to upload my zipped project files as its convenient and I have found it to suit my liking. Please remember to upload the files in the input folder. See previous post for details

Once the project folder is uploaded, next is the part of extracting the project files. This is a straight forward process but nevertheless an important one.

UNZIP ON SERVER


1. Choose the package you want to unzip.
As log in, you can click "Unzip Online" on the left side menu as shown, then click "select" button.






2. Click the icon of folders, then enter into the directory which contains your packages. Take "Project001" as an example, click the icon of "project001" folder, then choose what you want to unzip, and click the "next". ( Note: The icon "[..]" means back to the parent directory ).

3. Wait for a few seconds, you'll see the log of unziping, if it is successful, it will show "Everything is OK" at the bottom

4.After unziping, you can submit your rendering tasks formally.

Next session we will get into the more details of the renderfarm. We will learn how to setup the rendering farm for 3dsmax projects.

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HOW TO USE 3D CLOUD RENDER-FARM

SESSION 2: FREE  USER TRAINING 

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Last session we had read in brief of different ways to upload 3d project files.
As a continuation to our training course today we will see in details the upload options available with Indias first cloud renderfarm, www.renderingfox.com.

Files can be uploaded via 2 methods
1. Webased using online tool
2. FTP based

**We recommend archiving your project files, source materials like textures, scenes etc in .zip or .rar for efficient uploading. Please upload your entire project source file and related attributes


WEB BASED: USING ONLINE TOOL

A) Log into www.renderingfox.com via IE browser. Check the menu on the left hand "Upload File". If this is your first time to use web-upload function, a dialogue box will pop up at the top of your browser, asking whether you are going to install this widget:

B) Click widget to install , a dialogue box of Security warning will pop up, click "Install". 

C) After the widget is installed, please refresh the page so that it can run correctly.  Click "Add Files" to choose files and click "Start Upload" as shown below:

D) After the uploading is done, Click the button "Refresh" to reload the files list. You will find the uploaded files. To unzip the uploaded package, just click on the "Extract"

E) After the extraction complete, you can "Submit Render Task" now.

FTP BASED: USING FILEZILLA FTP  UPLOADINGTOOL

If you are an experienced ftp client user, you could skip this tutorial and just need to know the following information:

FTP Host: ftp.foxrenderfarm.com

USER: Your registration id

PASSWORD: Your registration password

Port: 21

1.Download and setup the ftp client software 'Filezilla'.
Click " FileZilla  on left side of the page, http://www.renderingfox.com/Support.html then setup "Filezilla" and you'll see a Filezilla icon on your desktop

2. Double-click to run the Filezilla, and input
"ftp.foxrenderfarm.com" into the 'Host' item,
 your registered id into "Username"
and your registered password into "Password",
then enter "21" into "Port" item, and at last click the "quick-connect ".

3.After account is successfully connected, you will see two folders "input" and "output" on the right side as shown,double click "input". Enter your destination folder where you would like the files to be uploaded, such as "project001"etc.

4.Right-click on the archive made in your local disks on the left, then choose the "upload" on the popup menu ,and the progress bar will be shown at the bottom.

5. Please wait until the progress bar shows 100%.

These are the simple steps to upload your 3d project. Extremely simple easy to use. In the next session we will see how to extract the uploaded zip files. 

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Starting now and for the next few weeks we will continue to post ways to use the cloud setup. A consolidated user document of the same is available of www.renderingfox.com/Support.html.


HOW TO UPLOAD FILES FOR RENDERING



How to Upload Files
You can upload files to Renderingfox renderfarm servers through the following two ways:

1.WEB. It supports automatic multi-thread uploading and continuous transmission on the breakpoint. It is applied to all users.
This uploading way can only be proceed via IE browser.

2 .FTP. This is a common way for files uploading, it's fast and reliable. If you meet a sudden interruption of the network when you're uploading,"transmission at break-points" will work when the network recovers.


The purpose of the above two methods is the same, to upload your project files onto the RenderingFox renderfarm server.
Before uploading, please make sure that you understand the directory structure of the RenderingFox render farm server.

After registration, you will get a personal space of 100G which will contain two folders named as "input" and "output".

The folder "input":  This folder is used for uploading your project files. We suggest you create separate subdirectories such as "Project001", "Project002" according to your own needs. After registration, there're default "Project001","Project002" already, also you can create some other folders such as "ProjectXXX". You can upload your project files (Scenes, caches, meshes, etc ) to the appropriate sub directories, then just submit rendering.


The folder "output": This folder is used for saving rendered images. When you submit a new task,the system will create different folders according to the number of tasks in the folder "output". When rendering is finished,you can find and download your rendered images in the "output" folder.


The next post we will see in details the web uploading process of the cloud renderfarm


To read/download the consolidated  cloud renderfarm user document please visit www.renderingfox.com/Support.html.


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3d animation requires rendering time to complete the processing of the designed animation/project. This processing time is known as "Rendering" time. This rendering takes hours, or even days of non stop processing on studio computers and workstations. Many artists and animation studios lack the costly infrastructure and until now had done rendering by setting aside one or a few of the available workstations to do the rendering, Sometimes even sacrificing their own working computers for rendering. Since rendering requires heavy processing this meant that the computers doing rendering could not be used for other parallel work. The long time required for rendering and non nonavailability of machines to work on, forced animation studios and animators to sacrifice crucial project opportunities, work on strict deadlines and long lead times. This also meant passing the opportunity cost onto the customers. Even with the high end graphics solutions available rendering is the biggest time consuming part of a project life-cycle and a major deterrent for many animators and studios to carry out big projects and compete with the industry giants. 

Setting up number of spare computers for parallel processing is an option but even that comes with its limitations. As each computer needs to be technologically advanced and this means increase in cost. A studio can consciously only invest a certain amount on such computers beyond which the purchase becomes nonviable. Even the maintenance of the purchased machines like temperature control, backup, electricity consumption etc are a heavy burden and hence always avoided. 

All of the above issues can be solved by using www.renderingfox.com

Six Steps launches cloud rendering setup, www.renderingfox.com, that will give access to animators and animation studios to over 200+ servers on demand (24x7, 365 days) to satisfy their rendering needs. The most technologically advanced setup of multiple cores, over 4800 cores is available for any user at nominal cost. 

Animators and studios can use RenderingFox setup from remote locations by just logging into their account on www.renderingfox.com, uploading their project files and press render to generate instant render output.

Six Steps is a 3d technology firm and our core focus is on providing and maintaining the cloud render setup for all animators and studios to use. Mass capitalization and resource sharing online allows us to be the cheapest render farm available. Th power of cloud with latest technology also makes us the fastest. 

Now using our render setup animators and animation studios can reduce their rendering time from days to just a few hours. We support softwares likes 3dsmax, maya and host of plugins and rendering tools. 

We strongly suggest all 3d studios and those related to animation industry to share this with fellow colleagues and help all reduce costs and make the industry more efficient. 

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Rendering: a animators nightmare. Its the most time consuming and expensive part of the project process and requires heavy computer processing to complete. Many studios and animators are unable to work on multiple projects and speed up project delivery because of this bottleneck. Increasing the number of workstations is not a feasible option because of the heavy costs involved. A single high end workstation may cost upto Rs. 1,00,000/-!!! Not to mention the cost of software, maintenance, wear and tear of machine and electricity involved. The investment in such machines is a major deterrent and rightly so, as many a times the investment to returns are not justified. Studios and animators prefer to work on  available machines and lose crucial time and have long delivery schedules, a reason why many talented artists and studios have being unable to scale.

 As a Industrial animaion firm, Six Steps faced similar issues of scaling and decided to do something that will benefit the entire animation Industry. 

Six Steps and its partners  have invested over USD 1.2 million  to setup Indias first cloud renderfarm enabling the entire animation industry to access our setup at nominal prices. 

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Unlimited plans are also available for users with anticipated heavy rendering requirements. The solution can be used by following simple 3 steps

STEP1: UPLOAD PROJECT FILES
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STEP3: DOWNLOAD RENDERED OUTPUT

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