New version of RenderPal available

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: brainspoon
Post Time: 06-11-2009 at 11:33 AM
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Shoran Software is proud to announce the release of the third point release of RenderPal V2, the
professional render management system, bringing many major new features and improvements:

Most notable is the introduction of net job presets, which can be used to store several net job
settings for later reuse. These presets can also be used in conjunction with the console remote
controller, so they are an ideal addition for advanced pipeline integration.

We made many improvements to the frame checking. Manual frame checking can now be performed on
single net job chunks, as well as on net jobs which are still pending, which wasn't possible
previously. Also, most frame checking settings are now made automatically, making its configuration
even easier.
To further automate automatic shutdown of unused clients in a render farm, it is now possible to
specify a schedule for automatic idle clients shutdown activation. During these scheduled times, the
automatic idle clients shutdown will be automatically activated for the corresponding pool.

The entire networking code of RenderPal V2 has been rewritten, which results in a huge traffic
reduction, as well as improved performance. We also vastly improved the connection handling, leading
to far less unnecessary connections made.

There are also numerous smaller additions and improvements (and some bug fixes, of course), like VNC
integration, new console remote controller features like importing render sets and net job presets,
a net job column to show the total CPU time of a net job and much more.

For more details, screenshots and trial downloads, visit the RenderPal website at:
http://www.renderpal.com

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