me makin a lotta typos .. to many anywhew, the question was, is there any sister prog to bryce that can take care of rendering only ? my cpu is very often too weak to handle complex things. if there is such a program, i would be most grateful to see a link to it thanx. oh ... btw .. You guys that keeps posting things in the galleries... YOU ROCK :-) keep up the good work

Let me know what you find. While my 800 Mhz Athlon is by no mean wimpy, it dows take 24+ hours to render complex images. The present one takeing 36+ hours.

Dang what are you guys rendering? Alot of tranparencies and volumetrics I presume. I have never had a render more than 15 hours and I clutter my scenes till my card chugs!

Same here I have had very complex scenes to where the 750mhz is starting to slow big time but the render never really takes that long. I think my machine would start smoking if it had to render that long. Let me know what kinda scenes you are doing. I found a place here in Chicago that is selling dual pentium 3 933mhz with 526 megs of ram and windows NT for $2299 I am thinking of buying that machine. I dont know of any sencondary programs though I guess I got off the subject.

Let me correct myself: the outfits use three or four trans maps apeice and then there is the glass. I just cannot type worth anything tonight.

actually .. im not that advanced to put layer after layer with things on top of an object ,..... Yet :-) but what i am rendering ... actually .. at the moment is an image with some volume visible spotligths if you ever play the game fallout2 you will see the character standing in the misty light of a car, i am re making just to see if i am good enuff to do that yet :-) its been rendering for 19 hours and still isnt done ... its just 16 percent done, since i am doing a Render To Disk.. See y i asked ? smile

You might check into Vue D'Esprit, its similair to Bryce and I think around the same price range. We have a Vue forum here you could ask for more information from. Ken