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"If you use a shorter lens on the camera it will reduce the problem but really the issue is you need to buy a sky to use for high quality renderings. There are hundreds of vendors online that sell them. Relatively inexpensive."

"Hi Neil, you just need a higher resolution (bigger) image to use as your environment/background."

"Correct."

"So to minimize this, the best thing would be to have a NAS setup where my workstation is connected directly with a fast wired connection of some kind, but the farmers can pull data from the NAS over slower network connection. Would that help?"

"Ryan - I think you are seeing the option > Flamingo nxt pulldown > Show light widgets on tagged objects.   Does that help?"

"Oi. The problem is lots of the geometry is linked blocks (structural, plumbing/electrical layouts, hardware that falls on the clip line, etc.) So I guess we give up on that idea. I don't want to get into trying to light all the cavities between…"

"Ryan - There can be quite a delay when the file is being transferred to the farm.  We send the model and all the textures to the farm directory. There is no need to have the farm locally on your machine.  Any folder you can get…"

"Ryan - If you want to render the model as if it is open, then you need to actually cut the object away.  I normally use a cutting object and the Boolean Split command."

"I retract this. had a bunch of other issues might have been something else."

"Ryan, I am waiting as well for a solution and posted a similar problem some weeks ago: http://nxt.flamingo3d.com/forum/topics/less-than-3-blocks-cause-still-weird-shadows I hope we will get soon more information! Markus"