CompuServe Messages

Actually, this may still be up in the air!!! Your questions prompted me to actually see how the SN panel worked, and I realized that the menu button wasn't there?!? When reading the manual (Shows how desperate I was! :^), it has a section for ScreamerNet, but the section begins: "The ScreamerNet control panel is used when you have purchased ScreamerNet Rendering Software." I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it says in the LW 3.5 manual…… Also, when reviewing the Nito-VLB from ShaBLAMM!, I had a special version of lw.exe for the MIPS that had to be run from an NT DOS shell. There doesn't seem to be an equivalent executable with this pre-release for the PC?!? Since Chuck B[NewTek] stated that we would indeed have the option of rendering on up to eight PC's with one licensed copy, I will have to make sure and retrieve that message before it gets hopelessly lost….Though it's probably too late already! As you pointed out, it would be a major marketing blunder to not offer distributed rendering (even if to only 8 processors) as a standard option! So, at this point in time, it looks like distributed rendering _IS NOT_ available on the LW for PC package! Since they said it will be available, they'd better release it, or I might be forced to hitch up with the Saperstein/Cole 'posse'! }:^) Keep On Toastin' Erik Flom – ELF Works 3D Construction Co.