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I realize that I will get flamed for saying this, but the Essence textures are just not that fast. They will slow down renderings considerably, take them off and give the render a try, see what happens when you replace them with 2.9 textures, if you are up to that level. A GRAVE misconseption is that more point and more faces slows rendering times down, this is not true. They take up more ram, but a object with well distributed triangles will render faster than a more simple one with shall we say a bulky look to it. If you have the ram, dont worry about the render time it will be faster possibly, especially when you render them in the Stage or Project editor and you set the world size to 0,0,0 in the size bar of the globals actor, do this add size thing in frame one only. Edge level does not do much of anything in Scanline, you are right about that. Many people dont understand what an octree is and that is what governs Imagine. The more the triangles live in a egual system the faster the rendering goes. The only concern you should have is if you have enough ram to establish this octree when you load these objects. Of couse you can always go out and buy a Cray 2 for a few mill and then this whole thing is just a joke, if you buy one let me know cause I want to work on it for a while