Thanks guys

No I'm not using media.  Actually I,ve got a pile of books to read.

It's now 17hrs in and speeding up so a 20 hour render seems likely - not so
bad!

I did wonder about manually bounding the objects? might that help?

Mick


Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote in message
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>
>
> Bob Hughes wrote:
> >
> > Something tells me Mick might not be using 'media' at all but rather
> > various textured planes instead (like the clouds, clouds, clouds post
> > recently). If so then I'd suggest rendering those animal objects and
> > HFs separately and combining later if you can via post-processing.
> >
> > Bob
>
>  Bob: That is unconscionable !
>
> Mick: If you build em like this they are going to take a long time to
render.
>       You are asking the program to calculate a whole bunck of rays and
it's
>       going to take time. May I suggest a good book...
>
>
> --
> Ken Tyler
>
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> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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