Saving some time and space: 1. Once a figure is clothed I make everything underneath invisible, or at the very least go into the materials room and delete all the un-needed textures. 2. For anything transmaped, I ususally use the Cartoon display in order to see it. You can usually disconnect the transmap(s) in the materials room as well. Just be sure to reconnect before rendering. 3. More than one shadow source-light usually just wastes time and memory resources. Pick your source light, set the shadow to either 7 or 8 for a realistic cast shadow, and render. And I never have the map set higher than 512. Shadows look just fine. 4. When it comes time to render, disconnect your 'puter from the internet, turn off your firewall/antivirus programs, go into Poser, turn off all the tools and tiles so all you're left with is the display window, make Everything display as wireframe only, and Then render. All that other stuff takes up resources, and the fewer you have running in the background, the faster the render will go. Hope these help!