fpfrdn3 - not for the person doing the render... say you had 20 or 30, decent spec machines up and running and available for your free use... wouldn't you use the facility?

tom271 - agreed, it's not very nice... however for me personally i'm behind a router / firewall and would just open up the bryce port...

Mark

Here's another question... maybe all of us here could run Lightning on our PC's when we're not using them (say over night... one persons night is another persons day, after all)...

Global render farm?

Mark.

Thanks for that electroglyph... looks like it's definitely worth researching more into this.  Thank you very much!

We're not allowed to throw computer parts into the garbage here... they have to be taken to a recycling center.  And people don't tend to like you going to a recycling center to take things away :)

Besides, for a render farm you'd probably want consistant sets of hardware, i.e. identical motherboards and processors etc.  Otherwise you're likely to spend too much time troubleshooting drivers etc which would be different for each system... and that kind of rubbish.

There are shops etc on ebay selling bulk recycled drives etc, for instance I found someone selling 10 (coincidentally!) 10gb drives very cheap... maybe this is the way to do it.  Find someone selling bulk reclaimed parts.

Agreed, lol... just want to get the most out of my nice laptop, lol...

Yeah... thanks for that :)

When I get a chance I will fire up Microsoft Virtual PC and run Lightning in that... at least 50% of my CPU won't be wasted then.

Mark.

Thanks AS... guess I'll just have to fire up a Virtual Machine then ;o) It's a million to one chance... but it just might work! All the best, Mark.

Thanks for your quick reply, and for your comment :) However, I'd already found the 'render on network' thingy (maybe I should have been clearer? anyway...) I'm pretty sure in earlier Bryce you could render to network, but also get the copy of Bryce you were using to render a bit as well. I only have one machine see, but Bryce doesn't use both CPU's... I figured if I ran Bryce Lightning, plus normal Bryce, and rendered in network render mode, then Lightning would do a bit and Bryce UI would do a bit... Feeling more silly by the moment. LOL Mark.

Definitely think you should try making the key holes actual holes... Keep us updated! Mark.

Ta da! LOL - works best if the two mazes you intersect aren't identical... hehe

Now, what I'd really like, is a proggie to make 3D mazes... I mean where the maze grid itself is not just flat... Err... Perhaps I'll post an example to explain what I mean! LOL...

Attached Link: http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/daedalus.htm

Love the modelling - hard-core Bryce modelling hehe... Great work!