Yes, I've had Bryce Lightning for many years now but only now am I almost ready to try using it.  At last I have the option to use some other hard drives as well as my four core main computer, plus I may have an eight core in the future.

However, not having used it before I could do with some help in figuring out how it works, and how you connect things up for it to work.

I'm away from home at the moment, but hope to be back with all these options and extra hard drives at the end of July.

The trouble is that since so few people use Bryce Lightning is very hard to get information on this subject, from users. So we may be stuck with the kind of information you get in a manual -- hopeless!

I understand that Bryce Lightning is not a render farm itself - it is merely the program to connect and get a render farm working - the farm being an array of harddrives/ or other computers acting as slaves to the main computer, and that you can either send all the rendering to the slaves, or include the main computer in the rendering job...

I think the reason it's hardly used is that most people just have one computer at a time, not many have extras PC's or Macs lying around available for such a task.

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