Distributed baking amongst networked computers with xNormal?

Lucas Annunziata

I was curious if anyone knows if there is any way to do a bake in xNormal that distributes the process to multiple computers to speed things up? I'm thinking something like what swarm agent does for lightmap baking in unreal.

ZacD

Not that I'm aware of, but if you have an Nvidia card you can use CUDA for rendering Normal and AO maps (Optix renderer).

EDIT: Apparently it does support distributed rendering, but I do not know how to set it up http://santyhammer.blogspot.com/2007/07/xnormal-3110-beta-1.html

Lucas Annunziata

Really interesting. Thanks for that ZacD. I'll look into it more. That update was a long time ago, so we'll see if it still works.