An X :-)

Look in metals - bright metals - there should be a mirror, however it has a distinct blue colour in its diffuse witch i suggest you make light grey instead or else all reflektions will have a blue tone to it

...and you can deselect the camera from the lower right menu also - that is if you have the selction palette active

I think quest is right :-) - Anyways - you could note the camera posistion - move it out of the way - select what you want to select - and then move the camera right back - If i doesnt do any harm to your other selections - you could "group" yur selection with a new colour tag

I dont see that as a bug - and its ctrl-left click to see the overlapping objects - and shift right cklick to unselect

I'm not sure about hyperthreading, unless it's the same as ability to use multiple cores! - I have 3 machines with quadcore, which bryce is able to use. The way to do this is setting priority to high which have a large impact on the render time on multi-core cpu's. However ...you can not set priority to high on bryce lighning clients, and i don't think taht setting priority to high on the machine that is render manager has any impact on the clients

EDIT: - By the way - i don't think taht net-speed is an issue in renderfarms, if you use tile optimation it's only small 8realtive) chunks of data that is sent between the manager and the clients, both when delivering the task, and in sending the finished render-tile

EDIT EDIT Reading through my post...of cause the priority setting must refer to MT - but as far a i can see bryce  also take advantage of multi-core processors

Best Regards
Arne

I would go for 6.1 - i've had some troubles getting 7.0 beta to see the renderfarm - however bryce 6.1 can use the 7.0 beta lightning program ...strange

Lightning is only used for render-farms ... not a dumb question :-) - but anyway - it don't take up that much space :-)

Regards
Arne

Well, i'm using breyce 6.1 as well, and you can start a local lightning on the system that runs as render manage as well that will participate in the rendering. Yesterday i furthermore discovered that when you want to render more images in succestion you have to do it in the same instance of the render manager, else bryce gets confused and you risk that it "mixes  " two render jobs - looks strange by the way :-)

I will look foreward to hear of your experinces with your setup of a renderfarm

I've tried this: I had 2 single core, 2 quadcore and one Duo-core running as a renderfarm - they reduced the rendertime with a factor 16 on a render that took 24 hours on a duo core. All machines except the 2 single-core, which were labtops, had a frequenzy in the range 2000-2600 mHz. I've discovered that using IBL can make the renderfarm useless, because suddendly some of the machines recieve the data, but stops rendreing, even with a restrat of lightning on the respective computers, i haven't found a workaround for that yet. Furthermore i've experinced a few times that the resulting bmp from the renderfarm doesn't look like the bmp from a standalone render. One time the colours just wasn't there on the renderfarm bmp.

Regards
Arne Fjord

Congrats :-)

Excellent

....addition to my earlier posting. The main harddrive on my wifes computer died last spring - that is - the filesystem was suddenly RAW format - well i took the disk out and connected t to my own PC - and used "Data Recovery Wizard Professional" to get all her data from Documents and settings out - maybe you could do the same :-)

Ladies and gents

May i recommend "Second Copy" it is very easy to use and setup, works in the background, i have a complete backup of all my bryce, including mat's and stuff on my second external drive.

GreenHawke - if its "only" your win that has crached on you, you should still be able to get your bryce thingies out of there. If you're harddrive has crached, but theres still life in there, well then there are proggys to get things out of there as well. If the circuit on the harddrive has crached, then there is the possibiity to find and buy a used similar disk that may have crashed otherwise, and switch the curcuit, i have ssen other people do that trick, and the switch of the circuit are pretty easy - in fact its as easy as to plug the drive into your motherboard

Regards
Arne

Congrats to the winners :-)