
Autodesk® Backburner™
Mac OS, EnglishGeneral Usage Instructions
Autodesk® Backburner™ can be used with Autodesk products such as, Autodesk® Maya®, Flame®, Flare®, and Flame Assist® to manage your render jobs and render nodes while network rendering.
Autodesk® Backburner™ is a background rendering network system that allows animation scenes to be rendered by many computers working collectively on the same network.
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Installation/Uninstallation
Prior to installing Backburner, ensure that the firewalls on your render nodes are disabled or that the proper port is allowed.
Refer to the chapter Configuring a Standalone Workstation of the Backburner Installation Guide: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/maya-dynamics/backburner-2019-install-guide-and-backburner-2019-user-guide/td-p/8234255 for information on how to set up background rendering on a standalone workstation. (This file is about 2MB in size.)
Refer to the chapter Backburner Components - Windows of the Backburner Installation Guide: http://www.autodesk.com/backburner-documentation for instructions on how to set up the Backburner Manager and Backburner Server in a render farm. (This file is about 2MB in size.). The installation and set-up procedure described below can be used out of the box or modified for custom integration.
To install Autodesk BackBurner, simply download the .zip file, extract the contents, and run the installer (.mpkg file), and follow the instructions contained therein.
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2026 |
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