Welcome to renderpal.com

Welcome to renderpal.com, home of RenderPal V2, the professional Render Management System for more than 25 renderers and compositing applications, including Maya, Mental Ray, XSI, 3D Studio MAX, Lightwave, Cinema 4D, Shake, After Effects, Realflow and many more.

RenderPal V2 2.0.1 is a maintenance release that fixes some Cinema 4D and RenderMan for Maya related bugs, and brings a few smaller improvements. A full changelog can be found here.

Starting with this new release, RenderPal V2 is now compatible with Wine, the popular Windows emulator for Linux and Macintosh. All graphical (Windows) components of RenderPal V2 can now be used under Linux and MacOSX. Wine support is still in an early, experimental stage; we have also opened a Wine section in our user forum for any Wine related questions.

We at Shoran Software are proud to announce the release of RenderPal V2.

RenderPal V2 incorporates numerous new features and improvements, which were mainly based on comments and suggestions from our users. With large, high-end render farms in mind, we rewrote many parts of RenderPal to guarantee a stable workflow at all times.

Beside the improved reliability, managing and maintaining large render farms with ease is a key requirement of any solid Render Management System. New features like the automatic update deployment, the Remote Controller (which supersedes the Job Submitter), and the ability to remotely configure clients make RenderPal V2 more comfortable than ever.

Another important aspect of RenderPal V2 are its flexibility and extensibility. Net job events allow you to execute programs, system commands or even Python scripts on various events that occur during the lifetime of a net job. Custom renderers are easier to create now, and together with our Python support, it is even possible to create script based custom renderers.

The monitoring capabilities of RenderPal V2 have also been greatly improved. More information is visible to the end user, and the new net job chunk list allows for a detailed overview and control of a net job and its various parts. As often requested by our users, it is now also possible to remotely view events and output from any client. To cope with the large amount of pools, clients and net jobs found in a render farm, we integrated view filters into RenderPal V2, which allow for showing only items that match certain user-defined criteria.

RenderPal V2 uses a simplified licensing model. From now on, users can buy the exact amount of clients (refered to as nodes) they need. The site license, which supports an unlimited number of clients, is also still available. For details, take a look at our online shop.

But this is not all. To support private users and small startup companies, we are now also offering a 3 nodes license for free. Yes, it is entirely free, and everyone can get one by simply registering here.

Along with the release of RenderPal V2, we have created a new user forum, which can now be accessed using the subdomain http://forum.renderpal.com. Due to this, users of the old forum will have to register again.

The renderpal.com website has received many improvements, like a new, entirely CSS based header menu. All contents have been redone from scratch, providing more information and details about RenderPal V2.