Wasn't it Kevin Ellis who wrote:
>Well here is an updtaed version of the image I posted on 12/08/01. I have
>played with the water a bit - still not overly happy. And the tree and grass
>are supplied by Gilles Trans Macros.
>
>I have ommitted the clouds as something strange happens when the tree is in
>the scene and I wondered if anyone could answer why?
>
>1. When I have the clouds and no tree in the scene it renders as normal.
>
>2. If I have the tree and no clouds it renders as it should, flying through
>until it hits the tree, but then still making a good pace.
>
>3. If I have both then the render goes at 0pps from the start - it is this
>that gives me the problems and I can't understand why.

Could you possibly have just filled the physical memory of your machine?
Things suddenly go a lot slower when it starts shuffling chunks of
scenery in and out of virtual memory. Try watching the drive light on
your hard disc, or try rendering a really tiny image of your scene and
look at the peak memory usage statistic that gets reported.

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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