I'm having a heck of a time getting the network renderer in Bryce 5 to work,........er, actually I can't get it to work at all. I'm running 3 machines; the server is a 1Ghz P3, running win 2000 pro, the client machines are as follows; a dual P3 500Mhz running Win NT Workstation 4.0 w/SP6 and an old P2 350 running Win 98. I have configured everything the way the manual instructs you to, but every time I go to use it, nothing happens on any machine, nothing at all. On the Win NT machine Bryce lithning won't even load; I get the splash screen and then an access violation dialog box, then it crashes. I have several other 3D apps on that machine, are there any known conflicts with Bryce lightning and other 3D apps ? Also, is it me or do the render times seem greatly increased in this version ? It seems the quality has gone up but so have the render times. This factor coupled with the network render problems makes this virtually unuseable for me. I do a fair amount of architechual walk-throughs using Bryce 4 and I can't imagine dealing with the increased time needed to use version 5 for the same work. I installed my upgrade after the Corel help lines had closed for the weekend but I will be on the phone first thing monday morning. Does anyone think I should uninstall and re-install ? I rendered a 40 mb scene in Bryce 4 on normal setting and the first pass time was 12 minutes the same scene rendered in Bryce 5 first pass time was 2 hours 18 minutes. What gives ?? Help ......TOM.

Have you been able to fix your problem? Check your settings, I had overlong renderings untill I noticed that the gel setting in the lighting section was on.

No, I haven't,......I have a friend coming over to look at it today(the guy who built my machines and set up my network). Thanks for the tip about gel's, I'll check it out. T.M.McCann

You should check the configuration of you network, i did sometest and if i check IPX/SPX on my network card, Bryce lighting do nothing, i take the check mark off and only check TCP/IP and then it start. Pleiades