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As Don said, if you make a full-screen flare, it can exponentially increase rendering time to where it may "seem" as if the computer has locked up. I'd keep the flare's to 1/2 screen size or less for efficient rendering. Re new IPAS, there'll be an update to the Disk#1 IXP's hopefully by the end of February. They'll support gamma and 64-bit color/alpha data. We're working on 2 sets of IPAS3 routines that'll be available this spring that will show off the tightly-coupled power of the IPAS3 interface. One set will feature a very capable velocity editing KXP along with a number of other useful routines (like deformation modeling using image files), and the other set will focus on new particle systems (like smoke and fire) along with free-form deformation tools.