"OpenGl was invented for GAMES, not high spec cgi, you want to see an opengl render, look at the viewport, thats all your getting, you don't need to 'render' unless you want a pic bigger than your viewport. Personally I just use zoom, its faster." Well, there you go again! Another implication that "non-serious" users only use full rendering. As pointed out, a quick way of checking things (especially shadows and textured hair in some cases) is to do a quick render. If you think that checking things look ok by waiting 10x longer then so be it. Open GL may have been invented for "games", but it's still useful. L