General Features

• Distributed rendering for fryrender and Arion across different computers.
• Support for still frame rendering and animation rendering.
• Remote preview and monitoring of slave nodes and jobs. (*)
• High degree of tolerance to failures of different nature (shutdowns and such).
• Really easy to use.
• Free of charge for all our fryrender and Arion customers.

User Interface

• Minimal yet easy-to-use UI (NetMonitor).
• Automatic network detection.
• Nodes and Jobs lists (updated in real-time).
• Clear and visually appealing monitoring of the remote status of each slave station.
• Very verbose progress log.
• Remote preview. (*)
• Session status recovery.

Executables

• Standalone monitoring application (NetMonitor).
• Service-like listener application (NetWarrior).

Rendering Job Types

• Co-operative render.
• Animation render.
• Spectral .DSI merge. (*)

Hybrid OS Rendering

• It is possible to render across different Operating Systems as long as NetWarrior is installed in them. (*)

Supported Slave Apps

• frycmd (fryrender).
• arncmd (Arion Render).

Supported Master Apps

• Straight one-click-away connection from fryrender standalone.
• Seamless connection from Arion Render standalone.

Multi-Platform Support

• 32-bit and 64-bit binaries are provided for all Operating Systems supported.
• Windows XP, 2000, Vista and 7 (NetMonitor and NetWarrior).
• Mac OS X (NetMonitor and NetWarrior). (*)
• Linux (NetWarrior only). (*)

(*) These features are not yet ready, and will be added in a future point release.