Quote - Correct. Lightning is as I knew it and as I read about it now, is just for chaining physicaly networked computers together for splitting up the job of rendering images or animations. As I understand it, it does nothing else, nothing in the way of networked or online networked collabrative scenes or projects.

Now...what I do not know; if I had a collection of say a dozen computers, could I somehow configure Lightning on each of them so that anyone else, anywhere online (that was using Bryce & Lightning) could use their own Bryce to use my cpu's to help speed up their own renders? (from like, the other side of the planet?!)

I don't know. But, that would be a cool ability.

Btw;
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/artzone/pub/bryce_lightning/renderfacts

From what I read when I recieved it with my download of Bryce 7 Pro, Bryce Lightning is supposed to be able to be installed on computers even if they do not have Bryce installed. I believe it was indicated that you could contact your friends and associates and ask them to allow this, after which you could then use their computers to help with the rendering of large scenes and animations. Basically you create your own render farm. I don't know if this is true but if it is not, then the text that came with it is misleading and needs changing to clarify the meaning.