3DS MAX Render Farm
Not every 3DS MAX user has a powerful PC that will easily render their projects. Upgrading hardware is costly and often turns into a chase after the newest developments, as CPU power keeps on growing each year. It is much cheaper and more convenient to use a 3DS MAX render farm like Megarender.
Cloud rendering allows you to upload your project to a render farm through an accessible interface so you don’t have to physically connect to the farm computers at their location. Our service shows all your uploaded files, lets you check the settings of your scenes, launch tasks remotely, and download the results.
At Megarender 3DS MAX render farm, we use Threadrippers 3990X, some of the most powerful processors existing today. They are approximately 10 times more powerful than an average modern CPU. For projects done in Corona and 3DS MAX our render farm can provide 256 GB of RAM, which is crucial for exterior scenes and in animation.
How to start rendering online
So you’ve created your project in 3DS MAX and network rendering is something you want to try. Use our Megarender plugin to properly pack your scene. It collects all the assets (like textures and sequences) and archives them together with the .max file. Using the plugin also guarantees that your project will open and run correctly on our 3DS MAX render farm. Uploading big scenes (containing tens of millions of polygons, hi-res textures or cache files for physics simulations) may take a very long time and should be done through an ftp-client. Contact our support team for more information about how it can be done.
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Sign up |
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Receive welcome bonus |
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Download plugin and archive your project |
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Upload it in Project Manager |
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Check the settings |
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Start rendering! |
While the rendering is in progress, you will be able to see the preview and an approximation of the time it will take to finish. You will only be charged after the image is finished, then you can download the result in the Project Manager.
Project cost calculator
How to use the calculator
The render cost calculator is designed to help you understand the cost of your project. We need the information about your PC to compare it to our servers; your computer will not be used in rendering on the farm.
Steps to get your result:
- Based on the number of frames you want to render, please select the Animation or Single frame option. We recommend selecting the Animation option only if you want to render more than 30 frames within the same project.
- Pick CPU if you render engine is processor-based (for example, Corona) or GPU if you need rendering on a graphics card (for example, V-Ray GPU).
- Enter the number of frames and average render time per frame at your computer.
- Specify your hardware: your CPU/GPU's brand and model or the Cinebench score (multiprocessor) of your CPU or Octanebench score of your GPU.
- Choose currency.
- Press the Calculate button to get your project cost estimation. Calculation will take several seconds.
- Sign up or sign in to the service to launch your project
3DS MAX render farm software
An important part of rendering the projects online is software compatibility. Megarender supports 3DS MAX 2023 and all the earlier releases and the latest versions of V-Ray, Corona and Mental Ray. We also make sure the scenes made with popular plugins will render correctly on the farm. Such plugins include Anima, Forest Pack, RailClone, PhoenixFD and tyFlow; the full list is available at our Supported Software page.
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Supported 3ds MAX versions
- 3DS MAX 2023
- 3DS MAX 2022
- 3DS MAX 2021
- 3DS MAX 2020
- 3DS MAX 2019
- 3DS MAX 2018
- 3DS MAX 2017
- 3DS MAX 2016
- 3DS MAX 2009 +
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Supported rendering engines
- Chaos Corona 11, 10.1, 9.3, and older
- Chaos V-Ray 6.0, 5.1, 4.3 and V-Ray GPU
- Mental Ray
- + other rendering engines
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Supported plugins
- laubwerk plants kit
- AXYZ Anima 4
- tyFlow
- Phoenix FD
- CityTraffic
- RailClone
- FloorGenerator
- MadCar
- MultiScatter
- Forest Pack