The site you mentioned under the 8th one was interesting. A lot of good comments were under the stock planet you recently submitted, makes me want to try making one in Vue myself.

Money goes to the machine ?...What machine ? please don't tell me you are a slot-jockey.

No, no... I'm not a slot-jockey, that would be just stupid. With machine I mean my PC. Has to be powerful to work with Vue and to get this really good games running on high fps. And those power doesn't come cheap.

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Oh, then thats a good cause. I need more RAM and a faster processor myself, everytime I want to create a vast forest like the one you did in "Tepui" I get a message saying "to populate this ecosystem requires a vast amount of resources and your system may run out of memory" GRRR, the ecosystems are one of Vue's best features too !...Plus I can't render very large or hi-res images either because I get the same message which forces me to render a smaller size

You wanna know the most evil message Vue can give? This one:

Out of memory error! Vue is about to crash...

That sucks. And I have 2 gig really fast RAM installed. (I'm shaking my head here)

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Sounds like you and priteeboy need each need a render farm (or beowulf clusters). They can be put together from old computers, or, as these guys in Calvin College did [link] , put one together quite inexpensively with their specs [link]
A lot of artists could use render farms. Animated movies are made using render farms. The Calvin College project might just have started a trend: home supercomputing.

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Hi Solo. That's what I'm talking about. More POWER!!! Wish I had the money to build me one of those. The Microwolf would do the trick I think. Or one Machine similar to mine and then linked together.

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Some folks start out small, with maybe 4 old used computers that they rescue from people getting rid of them, for a 4-node cluster, and expand as the opportunity to add more nodes arises. I also have seen (online somewhere) where the nodes were a mixture of both old PCs and old Macs, as the cluster was using Linux Distros built for both platforms. Many of those animated movies are made with a program called "Blender". The cluster only uses the processing power and RAM of each node, to speed up rendering time. By looking at the Microwulf, I can see, by today's prices, where one could even lower the cost of the system from their posted under US$1300 price tag.
I just put together a slightly slower system (on paper) on what it could cost and I came up with US$1057.75 for both the "system" and the "non-essentials". I find it could be even less if gigabit ethernet wasn't used, only 10/100. That's not counting additional lower costs by using extra hardware I have laying around here. So it is really cheaper to do if you are able to snag used computers.

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I sometimes get a similar message that says "Vue 6 has encountered a problem and needs to close, please tell microsoft about this problem" But sometimes that isn't just Vue, it happens at rare, and random times, even if there isn't a heavy load of information. Photoshop has done it to me plenty of times and so does the internet. I don't often work on huge Photoshop documents, hardly exceeding 4000 pixels wide and I keep layers to a minimum ( I may have 20 at the most at any given time ) But out of nowhere, it just crashes

That doesn't sound too good. But it sure teaches one to save very often.

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