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Jeff, << want to render a frame using say flat shading in a view windows and then rotate that object. Now I realize that PC Intel and such are not as brisk as SGI or Sun Sparc but one of the features we have under SGI is the ability to flat shade an object and then rotate about axis to view for look and problems.>> Download OPTMIZ.zip from the IPAS Usage section of the lib. Hold down the Shift Key and Click On Render from within the main dialog. You'll get a chance to select Wire, Flat or Gouraud realtime shading.. << speaking of brisk.. >> Gary recently said… "Optimize and Displace can push 60,000 Gouraud-shaded polys per second on a Pentium 5/66."…