ButterflyNetRender Network Rendering Application

Maintenance support:

You will receive 24 months of free support (via email) with the purchase of ButterflyNetRender - or additional nodes.
(This support includes any minor updates to the product.)

To purchase additional support contracts - please check this section: Service section

Customer support:

For general Customer questions please use the Online Contact form.

Yahoo Groups:

Please use Yahoo groups for General support questions:

ButterflyNetRender Member site (for current Customers):

Please use the BNR Member site to download BNR plugins and updates.
* The site location and your login information are in your BNR purchase email.

Technical support:

For help installing or setting up “ButterflyNetRender”
Please read the ButterflyNetRender User Guide

Also checkout the ButterflyNetRender Wiki

and the FAQ Section

For Additional help -
Check out the ButterflyNetRender Groups

Also Check out the download section on this page.

Phone support service:

To purchase phone support please

check out the Service section

Setup Shared Root Directory using UNC	Download:
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)	Download
Setup Shared Root Directory using UNC (Part 2) Confirm the Shared directory is created by showing the hand icon in explorer.	Download
Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller:	Download:
Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller (Part 1) Installing Controller.	Download
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	Download
Setup ButterflyNetRender Controller to Support LightWave 9.31 and higher:	Download:
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)	Download

Setup ButterflyNetRender Client on Controller:	Download:
Setup ButterflyNetRender Client on Controller (Part 1) Installing BNR Client on the Local machine (that the controller is installed on)	Download
Setup ButterflyNetRender Client on Controller (Part 2) Setup BNR Client on Local machine. This will explain the configuration process.	Download
Setup ButterflyNetRender OSX Client:	Download:
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)	Download
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)	Download

Test Render with ButterflyNetRender:	Download:
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)	Download
ButterflyNetRender Controller videos:	Download:
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.	Download
ButterflyNetRender Controller videos (Part 2) Explanation of the option preferences in the BNR Controller.	Download
Rendering with a OSX Client:	Download:
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)	Download
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)	Download
Rendering the Frames Frames begining rendered OSX Client (Videos are still rough and volume is a little low - working on updates)	Download
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)	Download

LightWave Plugins:	Download:
channelLimiter - LightWave Plugin Lightwave Plugin by Sector3	Download
MirroR - LightWave Plugin Lightwave Plugin by Sector3	Download
sWapper - LightWave Plugin Lightwave Plugin by Sector3	Download
ButterflyNetRender Support Files:	Download:
ButterflyNetRender - (BNR) 4.0 Manual - Online ButterflyNetRender User Guide	Link
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.	Download
ButterflyNetRender - (BNR) 3.0 Manual - HTML ButterflyNetRender User Guide	Download

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