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A couple of these were in the User Pack for v8, but did not get voted in. Hopefully these will show up again for the v9 Userpack features! #6 and #7 can probably be accomplished with expressionist. Thanks, Dave

I am surprised at the long render time. Even with the very high resolution. Can you post the project somewhere so we can take a look? If you don't have a place to post, let me know. Thanks, Dave

Hi Diego, Have you tried Instancer? This is a plug that does exactly what you describe. It was made by CJ and posted on CGTalk. It is free. A download link is here: http://www.cjberg.com/EI/instancer_7.zip Dave

You can try deleting all of the slaves from the Rama window and then set them up again from scratch You may also want to try setting different port numbers too. Check out http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1629 Just to make sure you don't have the Slaves on port numbers in use by other networking services ;) If this does not work, I would re-install the Slaves. Dave

If you are using Ubershapes, try exporting them as Facts and re-importing. (v8 has an auto re-import feature which makes this easy), then turn off the original Uber. I am not sure I have any more suggestions off the top of my head right now, but please hold onto this project! We would like the Beta team to have access to it if possible to see if there are any real bugs we can squash. Tom and I will investigate rendering to numbered image sequence. Please keep us posted on anything you figure out. Dave

Hi Craig. After copying the EI folder over, you will need to set up the Slaves on the second machine with the IP address of the local machine and unique port numbers. Hope that helps. :) Dave

Hi Christian, You may consider changing your workflow, and render to sequentially numbered still image files. This would provide a workaround since the 2GB file size limit on Image files would never be reached. v8 has added PNG which may be a good choice for this. Please let us know if this works for you. Dave

David, Are you using a static IP address on the computer running 'Rama? Dave