Dale, thanks for the fill in. I don't think we are chucking; we are reacting to the specific feature list they are explicitly listing on their site.

I for one hold hope that EF is "managing expectations." That is code for 'announce x but come thru with x+3."

I've been holding out for "something more" in the render engine every since I saw the phrase "a" 64-bit render engine. They did not say "Firefly increased to 64-bit".

Another aspect of the gradual development of 'render to separate process', multi-threading and the expansion of the render engine to 64 bit is the practicality of truly being able to render on your development computer and at the same time perform other work, or in fact continue developing. Certainly running on a dual or quad core CPU would contribute to that. The cumulative effect is to yield an additional node on the render farm.

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