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Wow! I`ve blown up 3D-Studio Release 3! I rendered a image from our new Anti-Aids commercial where are about 8 condoms on a street in front of a wall and a trashcan. Nothing moves. The condoms have different colors and one wears a sunglass. I used two spot-lights with raytraced shadows (only one illuminates the condoms). The mappings needs about 12 megs of RAM. I rendered the scene in 720×578 on a Pentium/66 with 64 megs RAM. After 3 days I had to cancel the rendering because I needed the PC. After this 3 days only 3/4 of the rendering was done… What can I do to reduce rendering time? I`ll render the same scene with shadow-maps tonight. But you know that shadow maps doesn`t look as good as raytraced shadows from a transparent object 🙁 BTW: in the final version the condoms have to jump through the street… Michael – Michael Bassier, Written 18-Jul-1994 @ 08:46:06 Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.2