SheepIt Render Farm Client

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Overview

SheepIt Render Farm Client is an Open Source client for the distributed render farm "Sheep It".

This fork is aimed at improving standalone client interface (cli).

Compilation

You need Java 1.7, OpenJDK or Oracle are supported. You also need ant. To create the jar file, simply type "ant".

Usage

Once you have a jar file you look at the usage by doing "java -jar bin/sheepit-client.jar". When you are doing your development you can use a mirror of the main site who is specially made for demo/dev, it is localted at http://www-demo.sheepit-renderfarm.com

Configuration file

inspired by the fork of @schtibe

You can specify a configuration file with the options from the command line :

java -jar bin/sheepit-client.jar -c settings
java -jar bin/sheepit-client.jar --config settings

Inside the settings file (short aliases not supported) :

login USERNAME
password PASSWORD
verbose
cache-dir /tmp/
compute-method CPU_GPU
cores 2
gpu CUDA_0
server https://www.sheepit-renderfarm.com
request-time 2:00-8:30,17:00-23:00

Note that all options are optional and you can chain config files & options like that :