I do agree that the farm is VERY good. And the item missing isn't copy protected as far as I know. It's a .veg file for blossoming buddies or something. Everything else I turned into .vob, just didn't know how to make a plant into a vob, so yeah, lesson learned.

I have nothing but admiration for Fred and Julian's efforts. I think this is a wonderful service, just a bit costly for me.

As for rendering a smaller view of the image. It takes my machine about 6 hours to render a 320 version at those settings. Granted, those probably aren't optimized settings, I just really wanted to test the RANCH farm.

And as I stated, I think for any professional project, this is the way to go. It is possible I just don't have the personal disposable income some might, so will either need to REALLY make sure everything is perfect before submission, or do it myself.

Again, love Fred's work, and think RANCH computing has potential, hence the 3 of 5 stars.