I used Lightning some years ago when I had three different PC's all about equal in power. It was little tricky to setup and understand it the first time around but I got the hang of it fairly quickly and it worked very well, speeding up my renders noticably. I do think I was using it with Bryce 5.5 at the time? (wow, time flies).

I haven't used Lightning in a long time just because I eventually invested my computer budget money into building a single powerful computer since as the years went by, most of my other programs needed a beefy (single) computer to work well and they could not be networked to perform better. (i.e.; Photoshop, ZBrush sculpting, etc)

Lightning also became less of a used tool for me because the more powerful single computer I built has a quad core cpu which is (almost) like having four individual computers networked up as a render farm.

Overall though, Lightning is a a bit of a enigma to me as it a HUGE opportunity for Bryce as its Ray-Traced scenes do take longer to render and having any amount of extra computers networked into a rendering farm is only going to be helpful, but...you rarely hear of anyone ever using Lightning. (and some of the Bryce users have been in this forum for many years)  ;o)

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