I have Vue 5 I. I know this is not a problem with my machines. I have two Athlons with 2 gig memory each. One is a dual and the other a 64 bit raid. The same exact thing happens on both. I am not rendercowing them now. I have narrowed down the problem, but don't know what is causing it. I have been doing water scenes using Monsoon's textures and wavemaps which I really like. I integrate them into the function editor. But I cannot render the scenes. I use user mode and have even lowered the anti-alias textures to 40%. I can render a scene with Poser figures, etc. without problems at higher anti-aliasing percentages. It is the water. Until I add a few of these textures to different materials in mixed materials, the water is OK. (I have used tile mode and not used tile mode. If I do not use tile mode, it does not render. If I use tile mode, it renders OK, but has problems with the anti-aliasing.) In tile mode, the rendering either stops at a percentage and the program stops running or it creeps. Does anyone have any ideas? I can upload the water planes as well as the materials I have created if that would help . It has happened on more than one image.

Thanks

do you have the latest update for V5I ?:)

Yes, I have the latest update. Also I was doing it with a very small file 320x240 at 72 dpi.

Have you used it with other render settings? Like Final, Bradcast or Superiour? Would be interesting to know. The other thing is that it would be interesting to see the scene - with all the settings to get a better understanding. If possible i would like to see that. BTW, i have monsoons seascape too (part 1 only to be honest) so this wouldn't be a problem. Let me know.

Wabe - I tried a render using Superior and it was OK. I looked at dburdick's list of settings for different render presets which I had printed and the aa settings are much lower than I was using. Perhaps the water couldn't take the higher ones and mayber they weren't necessary. I'll try a few more tests and if they don't work, I'll upload the file. Your idea might solve the problem although I am still curious about why it occurred. Thanks for your idea. It might do the trick.