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Gary, I seem to remember hearing of a problem someone was having a while back with the materials editor swiping memory from the renderer. I can't quite remember, but regardless, I'm having that problem now. I just noticed the problem on a large mesh I'm working on, but did some tests on several different files and wound up with the same results to varying degrees. Here's a simple example: I start up 3ds, load my mesh file, enter the mat editor and load the single material from the scene, then go straight back to the 3d editor and render a view. Memory for the render on this mesh is 27,236k (scene has 16k verts, 32k faces, 2 omni lights, one bumpmap material w/ a 250k bitmap, and rendered with no background at 512×486, phong, AA on – does the mem usage sound about right for this?). I then go back to the mat editor and simply change a setting and render the sample, then go back to the 3d editor and rerender the same viewport. This time it uses 37,196k and swaps 3,520k. That's a 13 meg difference for simply changing the shininess!! I think r3 has been doing this all along, but I haven't noticed because this is the first scene I've done in r3 that has swaped. I still need to narrow down the details of when it happens and when it doesn't and fiddle with my configuration a bit to see if it goes away, but do you have any thoughts in the meantime of what this could be? Has anyone else run into this kind of problem before? Thanx, David