Microraptor Gui - a Lightweight Remote Rendering Process Monitoring Software

Abstract

The rendering of a large number of images is a demanding task, usually delegated to remote rendering farms. This necessitates the creation of software for the management of these remote rendering tasks. Several commercial and noncommercial solutions can be used for this task. However, they are not specialized for rendering, and thus require either additional configuration and expansion, or familiarity with the remote rendering machines and the manual setup of rendering tasks. In this paper we present a solution to alleviate this issue. The solution consists of two components: Microraptor GUI and Microraptor client. Microraptor GUI is a lightweight web-based task monitoring and manipulation panel. Its backend is implemented in Python using the Flask framework and the frontend is implemented using the Angular framework. Microraptor client is a Blender plugin that allows for the direct access to rendering processes.