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CINEMA 4D R11 Quickstart – NET Render
5. Quick Tutorial – Jobs and Administration
This is part 2 of the tutorial in which you will learn job and user administration. Click on “Enter“ in your browser
window. If you are prompted for a user name and password use “administrator“ as the user name and *leave
field empty* as the password. This is the default access code. If you still can’t get in, open “Server.ini“ in the
“serverprefs” folder in CINEMA 4D’s main directory where the user data is located. (Windows: Open with
Notepad; Mac: Open with TextEdit).
Under Windows XP you will find the “serverprefs” folder in your user data directory under “c:\Documents and
Settings\[user name]\Applicaton Data\MAXON\NET Render R11_[version]\serverprefs”. Under Windows Vista:
“c:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\App Data\Roaming\NET Render R11_[version]\serverprefs”. Macintosh:
“Macintosh HD/User/[user name]/Library/Prefrerences/MAXON/NET Render R11_[version]/serverprefs”.
Note that the aforementioned Windows folders are hidden by default. They must first
be unhidden manually (Folder Options / View / Show hidden files and folders).
Make sure this file is only modified if absolutely necessary! No other persons should be given access to these
files. Otherwise they will have access to all user names and passwords and will be able to access render jobs!
You should now be on the “jobs“ page. We will get to the “client“ and “users“ pages later. Enter a unique project
name in the text field and press “Create New Job“ to confirm. This new job should be listed under “Inactive
Jobs“. Click on the job you just created to get to the next page. On the left you will see an “Upload“ button. By
clicking this button you can upload your CINEMA 4D project files. Click on “Search“ and select your CINEMA 4D
file (and of course the corresponding textures). You can select up to 10 files. If your project contains more than
10 files simply repeat the process or read Tips & Tricks. Now click on the “Upload“ button. We are now again
on the “Details“ page where the project files we just uploaded are now listed. All you have to do now is click
on “Start“ next to your job name on the “Jobs“ page and you’re done.
The progress of your rendering is shown in % on the same page in your job’s column. This offers you a constant
overview of which job is finished and which is still being rendered.
You can go to the “Clients“ page and see the clients you have started and information about which clients are
busy and which are being lazy and are doing nothing. If the rendering has been completed simply click on your
job’s name to see the rendered images (on the right under “Result Files“). Select the desired file and click on
“Download“. When you have finished this tutorial, please read the chapter “Tips & Tricks“ where you will find
some important information such as “Where should I save my textures so every client can access them?“.
That’s it! Now you see how easy it is to operate this module, even if the name NET Render seemed a little
forboding at first. We want to make life as easy as possible for you with this module as well so you can
concentrate on more important things than complicated program settings.
Now we will touch briefly on the module’s user administration. Only the administrator can add or delete new
users. Go to the “Users“ page in your browser and enter a non-valid user name. (Remember that a job name can
consist of maximum 32 characters – letters “A-Z“, numbers “0-9“ and “_“ are allowed.) Click on “Create New
User“ and set a password in the next window. (For security reasons, please inform the user of this password
personally or encoded) The user can also be given administrative privileges. Of course a user can be deleted at
any time or you can edit his or her user information. A user name can only be changed internally if a new user
is created and the old one is deleted.
Now you understand NET Render’s basic information and know how it works.