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With all these core2 and QuadCore CPUs out there, just wondered if anyone knows whether this application is multi-threaded so that it takes advantage of multi CPU cores.

If anime Studio is multi-threaded?

I don't think it is. However, I've been experimenting with batch command-line rendering in a program I've been starting to work on. If I can create a multi-threaded program, and have each thread render a separate scene file, that would be as close as it would ever get. I still don't know if that would even work, though.

NetGenSuperstar wrote:I don't think it is. However, I've been experimenting with batch command-line rendering in a program I've been starting to work on. If I can create a multi-threaded program, and have each thread render a separate scene file, that would be as close as it would ever get. I still don't know if that would even work, though.

Do you mean you're writing your own program like 'Anime Studio'? Or are you trying to write a program which would divide the rendering of an .anme into a number of calls to AS? The latter could be done on the same PC thus possibly using all cores / processors on one PC, but it could also be used to spread the rendering among a network of PCs.

Interesting Idea.

rogermate wrote:Do you mean you're writing your own program like 'Anime Studio'? Or are you trying to write a program which would divide the rendering of an .anme into a number of calls to AS?

The latter one. Competing with Anime Studio is useless. AS is already the best there is.

rogermate wrote:The latter could be done on the same PC thus possibly using all cores / processors on one PC, but it could also be used to spread the rendering among a network of PCs.

That was the eventual goal. The plan is to create a cross-platform application that can render one AS project per core, per CPU, per networked computer. I first have to see if it's possible, though.