Setting Up and Using a Render Farm
The most basic way to use Blender as a quick and dirty render farm has been enabled by something you’ve already done. The Touch and No Overwrite buttons allow you to load a BLEND file on several different machines at once, press the Anim button on each of them, and have the final frames populate the output directory without overlap. The Touch setting causes Blender to create an empty file for the finished frame at the beginning of the render instead of at the end. The No Overwrite setting requires Blender to look in the output directory before rendering a frame, and, if a file for that frame already exists there, to move on to the next one.
This technique is flexible in that there is no limit to the number of ...
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