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# 2 13-10-2004 , 10:22 AM
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hey fury, the stuff you mentioned above are all seperated rendering apps. Not to sure what backburner does, Renderman is another 3D renderer and I think net renderer is a distributor for renderers.
Anyways, if he is using maya than he will have the ability to setup a renderfarm with the Maya Software renderer at no extra cost. You need to install Maya on everymachine to do this and than set up licenses to read on the network or something. If he wishes to use Mental ray for Maya for rendering than basically you will have to call the wondeful people at Alias and they can help purchase a license per processor.
Maya does not come with a GUI to control the rendering which means you will nedd to go out and purchase one or there are a few free ones floating around the net. This will allow him to control what machine this will go to what frames blahh, blahh, blahh.

I hope this info helps you out.