When ScreamerNet is up and running, the master computer isn??™t doing anything more
than passing commands around, and it??™s certainly not doing any rendering. So unless you
plan to do some work while the other computers are rendering, you could make the master
a render node, too.
Whether you decide to use your master computer as node 1 is up to you, but the process
of setting up the master as a node is exactly the same as if it were a totally different computer.
You simply run both LightWave and the LWSN.exe program.
Before you start with the detailed stuff, the first thing you??™ll need to do is copy some files
from the master computer onto the hard drive of each computer that will be a render node.
Create a folder called LightWave on the main hard drive (usually the C: drive) of each node
computer (obviously, you don??™t need to do this on the master because it should already
have LightWave installed). Now copy the entire folder called Programs from the master
computer into the LightWave folder you??™ve just created on each node (see Figure 15.41).
Figure 15.41 Copy the LightWave programs folder to each node, as shown here.
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