You can upload files to Fox render farm servers through the following two ways:
1.The ftp. This is recommended for large files as it's fast and reliable. If you meet a sudden interruption of the network when you're uploading,"transmission at break-points" will work when the network recovers.
2.The web. This can be used in reserve. If you find a map is missing when you submit your rendering tasks ,you can upload it through the web immediately instead of the ftp.
The purpose of the two ways is the same,that is to upload your local files to the Fox render farm servers. However, the web can not support you to upload files which is larger than 20Mb.
Before uploading, please make sure that you understand the directory structure of the Fox render farm server.
After registration, you will get a space of 100G which contains two folders named as "input" and "output".(Please be assured that different id can only see its own files.)
The folder "input": This folder is used for uploading. We suggest you to create separate subdirectories such as "Project001", "Project002" according to your own needs. After registration, there're default "Project001","Project002" already, also you can create some other folders such as "ProjectXXX". When you finish it, you can upload your scenes, maps, meshs, etc., then just submit rendering.
The folder "output": This folder is used for saving rendered images. When you submit a new task,the system will create different folders according to the name of tasks in the folder "output". When rendering is finished,you can download your rendered images in the folder.
If you are an experienced ftp client user, you could skip this tutorial and just need to know the following information:
1.Download and setup the ftp client software 'Filezilla'.
Click "Download FileZilla"at the bottom of website of Fox Render, then setup "Filezilla" and you'll see an icon on your desktop:
2. Double-click to run the Filezilla, and input "ftp.foxrenderfarm.com" into the 'Host' item, your registered id into "Username" and your registered password into "Password", then entre "21" into "Port" item, at last click the "quick-connect ".
3.After it is successfully connected, you will see two folders "input" and "output" on the right side as shown,double click "input" then enter your destination folder where you put the files need to be uploaded, such as "project001".
4.Right-click on the archive made in your local disks on the left, then choose the "upload" on the popup menu ,and the progress bar will be shown at the bottom.
5. Please wait until the progress bar shows 100%.
After uploading successfully, you can log in the web to unzip it online.See how to unzip