I have both programs and without a doubt Carrara is far better in all features. Vue render engine is slow, interface is really unsuitable and application is very buggy. Carrara has a lot more features, best structure and interface and is a lot faster ... really try it before any purchase :) Juan J. Gonzalez

Yes Eric, i have seen this in some scenes ... i think that nodes are rendering while main app is waiting for last one ... but i am not sure, perhaps waiting nodes render only one tile and then wait ... , so if there is a very slow machine in the farm, it could stop all render process.

Message edited on: 01/20/2006 16:34

You can optimize this issues if you set a small tile size, 64 or less ... you get more network traffic and less scene optimizations, but avoid this render latency if a big tile spent a lot more time to render, and overall network render works best.

Juan J. Gonzalez

Message edited on: 01/20/2006 13:06

All nodes are pentium IV from 2.4 to 3.2 Ghz, plus three Pentium D 3.2 Ghz ... but faster is the dual xeon :)

I have no problems ... working with 18 render nodes ....