CPFitz14 question a few posts down got me to thinking. Do any of you guys have and tips on streamlining the render time?

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cool, thanks

Wow...... thanks. Had never even "grouped" anything. It's all sloshed into one big layer. This should be a HUGE help. -CPFitz-

anybody else have any other tips out there? Just checking

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If you have any application that can turn a 3D model into a single object (no multiple parts) before you import it into Vue, that will help speed up render time. SMT

Pete's tip of da day: This has nothing to do with rendering time but it has to do with smooth scene build times. Set up your scene the way you want placing a few objects. When you have them to you liking put them on a hidden layer. Keep adding more stuff and keep draging them to a hidden layers when they're perfect and stop trying to display everything all at once. Vue will sing. It works really well and allows you to build impossibly complex scenes up, 10 of thousands of objects are possible this way. When you render keep 99% of it on a hidden layer and it render faster too cause it will be able to update that basically blank scene in a split second if you're rendering to the screen. If you're just rendering for posting here perposes. ie:jpg's don't kill yourself rendering to extreme high render qualities. It's counter productive. Your going to loose most of that extra render time effect when you convert it to jpg. Sad but it's true.