Oh well, was kind of hoping to avoid building a render farm! How much easier to stick 4 cheapish graphics cards on a mainboard...On the other hand, real flow meshes work! So that's something! Still at the hobby stage here, so no crisis, but waiting days for renders is pretty pathetic..really would ...

Saw a website (forget which - bit-tech, hothardware or some such) that someone's coming out with a method to connect USB 3.0 (5 Gbps) to PCIe (PCIe 2.0 is 500MB/s or 3.9 Gbps) - and there are already 'thunderdolt' expansion boxes (thunderbolt :) runs at 10 Gbps) http://www.fiercecio.com/techwatch ...

I take it that's a no? regarding using Octane for Vue animation? I suppose I could use Terragen, but the GUI isn't exactly intuitive...

Still a newb at this, do I need to bake everything, set lighting etc.? Don't see how to export Vue scene files as meshes or Octane-friendly (lighting, materials ...

Tried to post this but then windows update got in the way, :cry: Has anyone got Vue to work with either Octane or Indigo, whether via max or C4d (or directly from vue?). Was thinking of purchasing Octane, new pc with 4-6+ pci-e slots and lots of nvidia cards (rendering Vue Xstream is painful!), but ...