Preparing

PREPARING

Establishing an Account

To test our service risk free, use THIS form to establish a free GridMarkets account. Ten rendering credits will be added to your new account (sufficient to produce roughly 50 frames (assuming 10 minutes/frame). Free credits expire if unused +14 days from account creation.

Downloading our Plugins

To complete the setup process, 2 downloads are required (accessible via 1 download step).

The first download is for Envoy: GridMarkets' tool to securely manage the upload of project files to our cloud and to download results to the storage location that you designate.

The second download is for our plugins that install into Houdini, Maya, C4D Nuke and Blender. These make it possible to submit rendering and simulation requests to us directly from the user interface of those 3D solutions. Note that these plugins are combined into the Envoy download (i.e. just download Envoy - see the buttons that follow).

Envoy for Windows

Envoy for Linux

Envoy for Mac

HERE are a few Envoy setup related pointers that are worth reviewing.
HERE is an Envoy tutorial.