The speed of the render engine really depends on the settings you are using with it and the size of image you produce. I've rendered images that took 10s and images that 9 hours of exactly the same scene, just with a lot bigger image and far higher settings. How well you prepaed and optimised the things in the scene and the other factors that affect any renderer. Really depends on what your trying to achieve. While you can't get any third party render engines with V5I you can export the scene to a variety of other programmes. I suppose, in principal using Python it might be possible to attach or build an alternate renderer but I havn't heard of any to date. But maybe your best bet is to download the demo of V5 as it has pretty much the same renderer and see if its fast enough for what you want to do with it. Cheers Mark

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