Erm....okay, so you don't like Microsoft? Just kidding - actually, I've worked with Java for the past five years, so I really have no business commenting on .Net and all that. And I only know Longhorn by name, but you make it sound like a creation of Baal (oh, wait...) Naaah, I'll stick with my company-provided W2K, thank you very much. Won't upgrade until physically forced to! ;-) But, in order to keep the thread on-topic (don't wan't Guitta on our backs), I have to report that changing the port numbers actually helped a lot! I've rendered 'Danish Spring', 'Amazon' and 'Hospital' without a hitch! Animations are still buggy - 'Mount Phoul' crashed VuePro within a minute, but I'm a lot more confident I'll get it working now. Is this another case of RTFM? I could have sworn...

I hear ya on the programming issues - hopefully .Net will make our dll-troubles a thing of the past (well, one can only hope). Maybe in five years time..? ;) Hmm...both machines have fresh installs, so yeah, that might be worth looking into. I upgraded from Vue3 and I don't have Mover. I think I'll also try distributing the port numbers differently, you never know...perhaps two of them use the same port. Surely that shouldn't be an issue??

Yeah - I tried an isolated two-machine setup yesterday. Let me tell you how it went: Both machines had a fresh Win2KS installation. VP + cow on one, cow on the other - all e-on updates installed. The same thing with the dual entries happened. The standalone cow also complained about various MS Visual C++ dll's missing. (IMHO: Using Microsoft Foundation Classes is a disgrace and the programmers at e-on should be flogged for using them). Ahem. Eventually I did manage to find them, though. Once I had deselected their ip-counterparts, the cows then actually worked fine until towards the end of the render, where they insisted on rendering the same tile of the image (Danish Spring). When they returned their data from the render, all hell broke loose. The cows simply died and VP crashed to the desktop. BWAHAAAA! Sniff I tried again with the Amazon image - same deal. When I tried 'Danish Spring' again, both cows crashed halfways and VP froze. Oh well, I'm sure I'll figure it out someday. Funny part is, I'm a LightWave user and have had absolutely zero problems with their cow-sounterpart. Something is definitely not right....hmmm.

Vue Pro does indeed allow you to split renders, unfortunately it doesn't work too well for me - Vue Pro crashes when it starts assembling the picture (me = bad-luck magnet). I'll try doing things your way (adding cows one at a time) and see if it helps. By the way, do your cows ever show up twice in the list? I usually see 'MachineA' and its ip-address '192.168.1.5' as two separate entries in the distributed render dialog.

Functional network rendering..

I completely agree with Sharen! I, too, have problems with Vue Pro (especially the distributed rendering and 'oh, there's the desktop again'-type crashes). Which program do you intend to export to? There is a thread on Lightwave export you'll want to check out, if Lightwave is your thing, so to speak..

Apparently! ;)

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DMM, you are so right - I just hope LightWave can key/composite the images together for me, AfterEffects is too much on top of VP, moneywise.. :(

The tree's texture map is 54 by 12573 pixels(!), and it's a BMP, meaning 256 colors. No wonder, then.. :)

You can get the sphere looking proper by loading the bump map as a reflection map and inverting it. Yeah, it's a workaround.

With these renderspeeds it looks like I'll have to composite the shots, rather than rendering them all-in-one. I hope LightWave is up to it..

The water transparency is at 100% - set the layer opacity lower, if you want to see the water.

Thanks ever so much Guitta! Looking into it right now..!

Maybe we could convince gebe/Guitta to make an exported tree or scene available on her website? Or maybe upload one for us? Please? Someone else?

I don't expect to receive the package anytime soon, but I will make these issues my top priority. I promise to post my findings - and upload some trees or scenes for you to mess with.

Brgds