Comments on: How imf_disp connects to mental ray and how to connect to a running instance of mental ray http://www.softimageblog.com/archives/122 People and thoughts behind Softimage in production... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:59:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Todd Akita http://www.softimageblog.com/archives/122/comment-page-1#comment-16075 Todd Akita Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:23:38 +0000 http://www.xsi-blog.com/?p=122#comment-16075 Kim - excellent article. Very handy stuff. I did notice that the port number mental ray uses *changes*. Meaning the port used for rendering seems to get rotated around between when you launch/exit XSI. Would this work if you had more than 1 render running on the same machine? E.G. would 2 renders running on the same machine (different cpus) be able to sidestep each other using this method? -T Kim – excellent article. Very handy stuff.

I did notice that the port number mental ray uses *changes*. Meaning the port used for rendering seems to get rotated around between when you launch/exit XSI.

Would this work if you had more than 1 render running on the same machine? E.G. would 2 renders running on the same machine (different cpus) be able to sidestep each other using this method?

-T

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