Hello all

Coming from 3DS Max and V-Ray, learning Karma has been quite the ordeal. I'm making progress, but there's one thing I'm having difficulty with.

In Max with V-Ray, even in progressive mode, I can have all of the machines on my little local network working on one frame. It seems in Houdini with Hqueue, I can only have one machine on one frame at a time. IE, I can only submit frames 1-4 to machine A, and frames 5-8 to machine B, and so on.

Is it possible to have all of my machines working on each frame together, to make individual frame times go faster? This would be ideal for me, due to widely varying hardware specs in all my machines.

Thank you!

I believe what you are looking for is tiled rendering:
https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/nodes/out/usdrender.html#tiles [www.sidefx.com]

Here is a tutorial describing it for TOPs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBgldRQgXZw [www.youtube.com]

I personally haven't tried it yet though. Just trying to point you into the right direction