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The fi le Farmerjoe.conf contains the settings that Farmerjoe will use to run the farm. Fresh from the installer,
the fi le looks like this:
# Master Server Configuration
port
2006
master
192.168.1.10
jobs
jobs
logs
logs
linux_root
/render
linux_blender
/render/bin/linux/blender
linux_composite
/usr/bin/composite
windows_root
r:\farmerjoe
windows_blender
r:\farmerjoe\bin\windows\blender\Blender.exe
windows_composite
composite
osx_root
/Volumes/farmerjoe
osx_blender
/Volumes/farmerjoe/bin/osx/blender/blender.
app/Contents/MacOS/blender
osx_composite
/usr/local/bin/composite
# Application server Configuration
appserver_port
2007
The only thing you will really need to change here is the master
192.168.1.10 line, which represents the
network IP address of the master computer. Windows users can open a command line terminal and type
ipconfi g
to fi nd their IP address. OS X users can look in the main tab of the
Networking
control panel.
Linux users can type
ifconfi g -a
from a terminal.
You could run the master control program now, but it won't do you any good until you have Blender binaries
in the proper place for the slaves to use. For each type of slave computer (Windows, OS X, Linux), you will
need the proper Blender binary. Of course, if you will only be using Windows computers, you only need a
Windows installation of Blender. The same holds true for the other platforms.
Within the master farmerjoe directory is an already created directory called
bin
. Inside the bin directory are
three more: windows, linux, and osx. For Windows, simply dump the contents of the Blender application
directory into bin/windows. For Linux, put the contents of the Blender installation into bin/linux. On OS
X, Blender is a single application bundle, so just place the lone application into bin/osx.
With the changes to the confi guration made and saved and Blender in place, it is time to start the server.
From a command line of the master computer, navigate to the main farmerjoe directory. Among other things,
there will be several fi les there: Farmerjoe.exe, Farmerjoe.osx, and Farmerjoe.linux. These little programs are
the heart of the render farm and are used to execute all render farm commands and applications. Choose the
one appropriate to your master computer's OS, and type the following:
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