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>>two monitors… For 3DS, I think the best way to do this is to render to a separate frame buffer board. I use an ATVISTA board connected to an NTSC monitor. This allows the last thing I render to remain on the screen until I render over it. This way I can refer to the rendered image while I work on the mesh on the computer's monitor. (Another big advantage is being able to re-render just a small region of the image to compare modeling or material changes to what is already on the screen) There are a number of frame buffer boards available, such as the Targa and others which are cheaper than the ATVISTA. I think Gus Grubba recently mentioned he has a Targa for sale. >>see my last rendered images or anything else… The problem with a frame buffer is you cannot easily display "anything else", if by "anything else" you mean screens and data that normally appears on your computer monitor. From within 3DS you CAN display any image from your disk as well as the sample spheres from the Materials Editor. JKJ