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Don't forget to check out 3DSNET.TXT. It talks about this subject in detail. When slave rendering, only one machine can render FLC files at a time. If you want more than one machine to help with the rendering, it is usually best to render to TGA or GIF files, and then compile them together into an FLC when they are done. The time you save having more than one machine rendering should far outweigh the extra time it take to compile the images into a FLC file. <<On the subject of net rendering and the queue… (forgive me, I'm not a 3DS user BTW, I'm a techie 🙂 If you queue a render on a single machine and it fails (marked as FAILED in the queue), then why does CLEAN remove job entirely?>> CLEAN should not remove the job, only the failed machines. One exception to this rule is if you had only selected only one particular machine from the network queue entry list, and that one particular machine fails. When you clean that entry, it is removed from the list. To prevent this, rather than choosing a particular machine from the Queue list, choose ANY (even if you are only going to have one machine render.) That way, when you clean the process, there is still a posibility of another machine comming back on line and picking up the render job, and it won't dissapear. -Brian