Hi Fuzzy!

I,m working for an Architectural firm myself too, Just started, and all this Vue stuff is new but first deadline is creeping on me.

And thanks for the post, it answered few of those questions I had bugging me.

One of them, I actually have just figured out myswelf today at work, came home and read your post to Vue support and it has confirmed my solution.

I had just wasted 12 hours of rendering last night because every some 4-5 frames I'd get image with missing textures - black spots instead. I did tests all day and nothing came wrong like last night, I used same machines. And then sudenly, I see one of the machines rendering out frames twice as fast as the others and this machine has someone working on it presently-  so I'm like - how come? Something is wrong, I stop the rendering (because we can't see the result before the end we all know that) and check my renderings, and again, every 4th frame had black spots, but this time I knew which machine did that - and it was the machine that one lady has just left and some guy logged on. Same thing happened last night, she logged off when left and I logged in to use it for night using my account.

Fhheww, I'm glad I put my finger on this bugger, it could have destroyed my first project ,

And they really need to get rid of those TMP files. That's just something rediculous.
I read a story on their support site where a guy was about to lose his job because Vue crashed after 2 days of rendering and left him with those TMP files on deadline.

Even though they say they need those TMP files to reduce flicker - this thing still flickers like crazy, even after boosting AA, using distance blurring, motion blur, removing Bump maps from grass and stuff.

And now they want 200USD for 5 more render nodes. I'd pay if Hypervue was something close to Backburner. Where the guy can monitor rendering on the weekend from home! While me, I'll be waking up eariler and going to the office on weekend just to make sure it's still rendering.....