@smurfmier1985 I completely forgot you mentioned it. I should have tried it back then.
I’m curious about @nekronavt‘s experience. He’s right that you can’t start rendering your own project as soon as you sign up. Sheep it requires you to render 10 frames of other people’s projects in order to submit your own for rendering. But I don’t see that as a cost. I mean technically the cost of electricity to run your computer I suppose. I see it as a small commitment for everyone joining. The whole thing only works if there’s as much give as there is take. I render yours, you render mine; I scratch your back you scratch mine.
As for security, I haven’t been able to crack into anyone’s Blender scene file. I get .zips added locally but they’re all password protected. Unless Pavel knows something I don’t, it seems pretty secure to me.
I let half of my computer’s resources render other peoples’ projects (also CPU for SheepIt, GPU for Omar) for 18 hrs and I’m already in the top 50% of renderer’s for this month and ranked 517th overall. I find the points system brilliant! It comes with these badges to unlock. Like a game for lending your computer to others for rendering.
I’m only seeing positive things so far. The real test will be submitting a project of my own to test efficiency. Will do that ASAP and report back.
