Overview
Using V-Ray or Corona standalone engines on Helio Cloud can significantly reduce render times and save costs.
Export scenes (.vrscene / .cdo)
By exporting your scene as a .vrscene or .cdo file and selecting the corresponding “standalone” engine in the Helio Render Client, you can take advantage of the standalone rendering capabilities of Helio, which split the rendering process across multiple high-performance cloud servers.
Why is it cheaper?
First, we need to learn what is included in a render unit.
During the rendering process, Helio will do the following steps:
Sourcing and scaling of computing power
Starting the servers
Loading the data
Loading the scene
Rendering
Storing the results
The benefit of standalone tools is:
We can source cheaper computing resources, as standalone renderings are running on Linux instead of Windows Server.
The amount of data is usually reduced, so the data load faster
Starting standalone tools and loading the scene is usually much faster as e.g. starting 3ds max.
How can I render standalone?