Hi guys! I just bought Carrara 8.5 Pro... and it cost me $85 ! Yay! (I'm NOT a plat. club member and do not plan to be). 

this after trying and failing to render Howie's Vally Alpina...obviously it ran out of resources...I was trying to do a 2600x2000 pixels at 72 dpi... and it croaked... so went to buy the Pro...

QUESTION: I had two downloads - one the exe for win 64 bit (assume it's the main program) AND the "render node" for same... WHAT IS A RENDER NODE???

Also It said it was  part of a "bundle" (the pro version package) that was only 149 mb (for the main program exe) ... and the download Link for native content was TINY... ??  I DON'T USE ANY GENASIS stuff.. nor any figures... AND I did BACK UP my CONTENT from my Carrara 8, before uninstalling and eradicating it... (all my Howie stuff).... all I really want is native content and that too was in my BACK UP files... so not sure how/what else I need to download.

I will not install anything until I hear from you all about what is that 'render node' exe that is about 57 mb.

THANKS so much for you on-going help and explanations!! While I mainly want to use Howie's scenes, I would like to try some of "my own" by using the "scene files" that look like starter scenes, from my version 8 library... :)

Lyne

Life Requires Assembly and we all know how THAT goes!