brent, I was actually thought about the same thing. I've got 4 machines at home that I could use. I had planned on charging something like a 500mhz PIII/ hr rate. I was going to sit down and benchmark my machines so that I would know that if the dual 800 rendered for X long, it was equivalent to rendering for Y long on a single 500 and then just charge a standard 500mhz/hr rate. Not sure how lucrative it might be, but it might be a way to pick up a few bucks if someone had a large project they needed rendered. Carrara doesn't support the network rendering, but you could certainly do it manually by stitching together the rendered frames. There was a guy who was working on a network renderer for Ray Dream, but RD/Carrara's unusual way of using COM made it harder than it really should be and I don't think he got anywhere with it. Eric Winemiller Digital Carvers Guild Freeware and commercial 3D extensions http://digitalcarversguild.com

Eric Winemiller
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Carrara and LightWave plug-ins