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Hi Jeffrey, Hmm, good question, I have always been under the assumption that eventhough an object is not in camera range, maps are still applied to the object, thus increasing rendering time. This is really what I was taking about though, say we have a model of a house, at the beginning of the animation, you see the outside of the house only. Eventhough you only see the outside shell of the house, the house still contains walls, pictures, tables, chairs etc, and the back of wall of the house, and other stuff. Everything is in camera range, but you don't seen ANY of the inside articles. The thing is that everything is still being rendered, eventhough you only see the outside of the house in the rendered image. I guess my original comment was a bit misleading. I just thought it would be cool to have the program smart enough to know that the stuff INSIDE the house should not be rendered. *** how about this : Being able to actually tell 3ds at a certain frame, to start rendering an object!, in the keyframer, you could actually click on a frame number, and yo would be able to click on objects to start rendering or to stop rendering … I guess this is what I meant and badly explained it. Sorry. Well, could this ever happen ?? if so, that would be super! Mark in Montreal.