Getting BackBurner rendering on Windows and Mac OS X simultaneously

Every now and then we do get asked if BackBurner does cross platform rendering.  The simply answer is yes but there is indeed some setup involved to make sure things work.  

In this video I explain two key components to get this up and running.  The first is setting the correct path to Maya's render command so both Windows and Mac OS can use the same command when submitting the job.  The second task here is to mount a samba drive on Mac OS.   In the video I show a simple method of gettng this done but you will loose the mount at reboot.  To keep the mount through reboot I suggest you lookingto launchctl command and how to use it.

Hope this helps!

 

Comments

[Julia]

Hi,

Thanks for your post! unfortunately I still have some problems getting backburner render on windows and mac simultaneously. I managed to set the shortcut to the render command on both systems, so when i type render in the osx terminal or win commandline i get the "missing file name" error. but when sending a job to backburner using only "Render" as Renderer Path the mac says "cannot execute command:'Render -r ....'" and the windows machine says "create Cmdjob process error: 2". Any idea what i am doing wrong?