And transparency + reflection + HIGH REFRACTION settings (like with water textures) can boost render times greatly as well. And if you use certain high settings with volumetric textures...you can even lock up the preview window in the DTE, LOL.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy