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• close
• begin rendering animation
• preview single frame

             g e n e r a l

• general stuff - applies to GL and renderman

• GL stuff

             r e n d e r

• renderman stuff

• flow doesn't support remote hosts yet, but you can select multiple local processes when rendering animation (for multi-processor systems). Processes can be added and removed during an animation render. (If three of the boxes are checked, flow will run three rendrib processes concurrently, etc.)
• <RANT> If you don't have an SMP machine already, I humbly suggest you make your next box a double. 'make -j 2' is a godsend (compile in half the time), GLX performance is much better (client process makes GL requests, the X handles the rendering), and with the desktop environments integrating CORBA, KDE/GNOME will be snappier on multi-processor machines. Dual processor is good for  f l o w  because (besides the improved GL performance) you can be running a particle animation, fork off a rendrib process, and the animation will continue at full speed while one processor is bogged down crunching rays. </RANT>