From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Product Design Rendering

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Activating V-Ray and understanding its approach

Activating V-Ray and understanding its approach

From the course: Rhino and V-Ray: Product Design Rendering

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Activating V-Ray and understanding its approach

Before we get started with the fun rendering stuff, we first need to tell Rhino which render engine to use. By default, Rhino will use its own built-in engine called Rhino render. Just in case you haven't set up an additional render node with a DR spawner on other computers, let's cover that scenario first. I'm going to jump to the desktop. Now, let's talk about the DR spawner installation. Remember, this is other computers that aren't working on Rhino. To install the DR spawner, you want to run the installation which we covered in chapter 104. Then you need to launch the spawner. You can find the application by looking through the programs in either Windows 7 or 8. I've created a desktop shortcut here. So let's double-click that. So, this utility will scan the network and basically announce its availability to help out. The cool thing about this is you can store nine extra computers, having ten total. That's going to be huge boost in productivity. And there's no extra charge. This…

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