got the point. What we need is support for the full
... Pauze - Quit - Shutdown // Startup - Restart - Resume ...
cycle. Not sure if Vue supports that, there is no documentation on that Puase button.

The only program I recall that could do that was mojoWorld. I could say; render buckets X to Y, so after a crash at bucket 99 I could continue from 100 on, and assemble the results later. This way I could do network rendering on a single image too: every machine got its own bucket range.
According to the Vue website, Interactive Network Rendering does support single images over multiple CPUs. Bryce can do that too since network rendering kicked in. But then single image / multi-CPU rendering implies that each machine got 1 bucket / thread at a time, so any multi-threading capacity was not used. Perhaps that's changed by now, don't know.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though