Has anyone seen within the various Bryce5 reviews mention of increased speed in MacOS X over 9.1 The particular program I'm using now (EI) in its most recent update supposedly has a 10 to 30% speed increase in its new native X camera. While Bryce5 muliti-machine rendering is great, I don't think this is going to do a helluva lot for the average user, especially with all the new goodies and the existing "volumetrics/volumetric world." manowar

being a Mac user also, this concerns me too! - The new bryce 5 (beta at any rate) doesnt work any faster on OS9 than 4 does, if anything it was a fraction slower, which was rather dissapointing! - but it is 'supposed' to be a labout 30-40% faster on OSX! - whether those with dual processors will benefit greatly is still a question i would like answered!

The only advantage OSX will have with Bryce & MP systems is that which the OS provides to multi-threaded processes of the OS itself. Bryce is "single-threaded" so the only possible advantage may be with OpenGL screen redraws and other sys stuff. The actual rendering may be a little faster from what I've red but not significant. It may be possible to set-up two client renders on the host machine & render a single-frame movie in the net-render feature. This should take advantage of MP systems in theory. Note, I've gatherd this info from several different forums and am no expert on this subject. It does look interesting though.

Thanks willf, it does seem a tad shortsighted to offer network rendering capabilities and yet not make MP rendering built into Bryce itself given that it has been written for OSX which as you said, is fully MP aware!

Thanks for the info. I'm looking forward to the new version and especially the Tree Lab, but it appears the rendering engine is going to continue being the one main impediment to Bryce as an animation tool. manowar