ButterflyNetRender - Tutorials

  Setup Shared Root Directory using UNC (Part 1)
How to create a Network Sharing directory on the Machine
the Controller will be installed on.
(This example will be creating a UNC directory which does not require mapping on each Render node)

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  Setup Shared Root Directory using UNC (Part 2)
Confirm the Shared directory is created by showing the hand icon in explorer.

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller (Part 1)
Installing Controller.

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller (Part 2)
Running Controller for first time and configuring LightWave using the UNC shared directory. This will explain the LW Plugin copy process and the BNR directories that are created on the shared root folder

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller to Support LightWave 9.31 and higher
This video will show how to enabled the support for LightWave 9.3.1 and higher
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Client on Controller (Part 1)
Installing BNR Client on the Local machine (that the controller is installed on)

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Client on Controller (Part 2)
Setup BNR Client on Local machine. This will explain the configuration process.

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender OSX Client
This video will show the setup of the OSX Client
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller to support OSX Clients
This video will show the Controller settings required for the OSX Client support
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Test Render with ButterflyNetRender
How to add a LightWave Scene and set the Prefix name for rendering Frames to the Shared Directory. This will also explain the Content Directory setting required and How to use the LW Scene Defaults.
(NOTE: This is a long video ~7 mins)

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  ButterflyNetRender Controller videos (Part 1)
Stopping a Rendering Scene. This will explain the difference between "Stopping" a scene which will wait for the current frame to finish Or "Reset/Kill" a active scene which will stop the scene without waiting for the current frame to finish.

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  ButterflyNetRender Controller videos (Part 2)
Explanation of the option preferences in the BNR Controller.

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  Rendering with OSX Client
This video will show the rendering of frames on a OSX Client machine being controlled by Windows Controller
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Checking LWSN Log files for errors
This video talk about the LightWave render log files - which can be used to check for any Lightwave rendering errors.
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Rendering the Frames
Frames begining rendered OSX Client
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  Closing the OSX Client
Closing the OSX Client machine - clearing the process
(Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)

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  channelLimiter - LightWave Plugin

Lightwave Plugin by Sector3

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  MirroR - LightWave Plugin

Lightwave Plugin by Sector3

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  sWapper - LightWave Plugin

Lightwave Plugin by Sector3

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  ButterflyNetRender - (BNR) 4.0 Manual - Online

ButterflyNetRender User Guide

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  ButterflyNetRender - (BNR) Client Scene Saver

Windows Screen saver for ButterflyNetRender Clients - Use to force the BNR Client to enable when the Screen saver becomes active.

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  ButterflyNetRender - (BNR) 3.0 Manual - HTML

ButterflyNetRender User Guide

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