A lot of us are familiar with local network rendering to speed up Vue calculations, but what is interesting is that it also works remotely. For example, you have a network of several PCs at home or at work, but you are away, with just a laptop and an internet connection. You work on a scene and you'd like to render an animation or a big image, but all you have is your slow laptop... Here comes distant, or remote, network rendering. I did this experiment recently with Vue 5 Infinite. All I had to do was to : - define different TCP ports for each rendercow on my network. For example PC1's rendercow uses TCP port 5001, PC2 uses 5002, etc. - open the corresponding port in the router/firewall for each PC working as a rendercow. - in Vue, choose HyperVue, and for each distant rendercow enter my internet IP address and the corresponding TCP port (x.x.x.x TCP port 5001 for the PC1, x.x.x.x TCP 5002, and so on). All the necessary rendercows are added this way. It is just like using a distant supercomputer to do the hard work :) This feature has many applications. For example, you can borrow rendering time from your trusted friends's computers when they don't need it :)

Hey, now this is very interesting! Problem is: are my friends allowed to run a cow? Why not after all, since I own Vue and am allowed five rendering nodes.