Email i sent netscale today if anyone here can help or offer suggestions on how I can set up my 3 comps to work together to render images then id love to hear it. This is my 4th whole weekend that I have spent trying to get this to work so its not like i havent tried believe me . Anyway back to the letter Hi netscale people Long story short. Having trouble using netscale Win xp maya 5 (student licence) full version ? I want to be able to have my 3 cpu's render an image (single frame) for me in record breaking times hehe, by splitting the image - for example a 320/240 image in between 3 computers to let each computer work on a separe part of the image and then recalculate it to display on the computer I do my work from. ? 1) Do you call this process Real-time Image-Scatter Display? If this is possible then I will be purchasing 3 cpu netscale licences if I can get this to work of course. The link below is to a divx 2mb screencapture which is me adding a cpu and then trying to do an image scatter render. (if it would help I could do a more detailed screen cap of the full proccess) I am getting a sorry we have encountered a problem and have to close error message. click here Net conne.exe is running. I have spent 6 hours today trying to figure this out by myself and am at a wits end, hopefully you can shed some light. I cant get this to work at all not with image scatter nor with just rendering out one frame on one pc nor rendering an animation. Regards