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From: johnc@mcs.com (John Crookshank)
To: lightwave@webcom.webcom.com (lightwave)
Subject: Yet another PAR question...
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on 14-Aug-95 09:05:56, Adrian Onsen (aonsen@sentex.net) Emailed:
> Ok... I just hooked up both my amigas througParnet, and I waant
> to start rendering to my par with both computers... One problem... Will
> the par software will just save the frames as they come (ie if one
> computer renders frame 1-100 and the other computer 101-200, will my
> anim be
> 1,101,2,102,3,103... as the frames come in, or is the PAR software smart
> enough to take into account the frame numbers and arrange the anim in
> the correct order)
> If this desn't work, how do I save to one par from 2 computers?
You'll either have to save all the frames to a standard Amiga directory,
and then import them when it's done, or use a utility to do this for you.
I have used a program called Plantation with very good results. It was
specifically written for multi-machines on a network, and has a special
provision to handle the concerns of the PAR. Plantation costs about $100.
By the way, for better results, do not render frames 1-100 on the first
computer and frames 101-200 on the second. What works better is to tell
computer #1 to do frames 1-199, frame step = 2, so it does all the odd
frames, and tell computer #2 to do frames 2-200, frame step = 2, so it does
all the even frames. That way, the two computers stay fairly neck-and-neck