FPrime

The overall process of setting up 'FPrime Group' with ButterflyNetRender is very straight forward:

Install:

(Windows):

• 1. Install Lightwave and FPrime on the machine that will be running the BNR Controller - Make sure you 'clear' and 'scan' the plugins in layout to make sure the plugin cfg file is created.

Configure:

Configure the FPrime group type in BNR Controller:

In the BNR Controller:

• 1. Add new LW Group type (Options->Configure->Configure Groups -> LightWave Group settings tab

• 2. Select a LW Group thats not be used yet
• 3. Now you can use the 'Build Configuration Wizard' to build all the files and cfg files.

This will copy all the files to the network

• 4. Now you will need to manually copy the wsn.exe to the shared folder and in the group settings - change the name from lwsn.exe to wsn.exe

Restart:

Restart the BNR Controller.

Add:

Now add LightWave scene file for rendering:

After you add the scene - you may need to:

• 1. Select the FPrime group

Make sure you add the scene from the Shared Network folder (that all the rendernodes have access to - otherwise the rendernodes will not be able to load the scene)

Test:

The best way to test a new Lightwave setup:

• 1. Install a BNR Client locally on the Controller machine.
• 2. Add a Lightwave scene into BNR
• 3. Set the LWSN logging option - Options->Preferences This will output the rendering information to a file that you can later check
• 3. Only enable the rendernode thats running on the controller.
• 4. Now Modify the frame range to be just 1 frame and 'Start' the render job (Right click ont the Scene)
• 5. Now the rendernode should start rendering - If you get any errors - check the render logs:

• Right click on the Scene and a select "Open Scene Trace Log folder" and you should find the ae output text "Render_*.txt" - Please open with notepad to view the text.

(note if you see *.csv files - these are BNR Controller state flows)