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Chris: /_______________________From your message________________________\\ There are complicating factors like transparent glass windows in the interior doors, but those are hidden for the first half of the animation. __________________________________________________________________ I think Dave and others may have hit on a possible culprit for such long render times, the Hide keys on certain objects. The SHADOW-BIAS-ABSOLUTE parameter in the 3DS.SET file may be worth a look. Do you have any automatic reflections being calculated for your glass? The render times you posted are just the kind of things that made me try the rendering with raytraced shadows. Bob