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Marc, I went ahead and loaded the COB file you are using. It took 8 minutes to load on my 66. The problem you are facing here is the COB file. It is a 3DStudio file, converted to COB format. The file IS enormous and complex, contrary to what you believe, there are over 10,000 tri-faced leaves on the tree alone, trueSpace can't even tell me how many faces are in it (it says -24780). >If this volume of data makes tS stutter, than I guess I will be facing massive disappointments >in the near future when going for the first serious projects. This volumn of data would make anything stutter… I wouldn't even try to render it in 3DStudio without at least 256 MB RAM. trueSpace is not the problem here, ANY rendering program would have difficulty with this mesh. On the bright side, without the tree, I could recreate that COB in tS and keep the size under 100k, not 4.7 meg like the one there (I would also render the tree separate, created with textures, not a zillion polys). Understand, the trueClips CD was just tossed together with whatever was available. Very few of the files are actually original COB files. trueSpace works best with files created with tS, not imports from other packages. You will be just as dissapointed with any package out there with a file of this size, please do not blame tS. Regards, Ian