finished render time. The work flow for an animator in Poser is to move the slider to a frame in your animation, get the pose correct, check all render settings, then render a single frame. Then, if you want to see how the exact same frame would look with more intense settings, such as min. shade and raytrace bounces, you change the setting and render again. Then, you can use the slider to compare the two. If the final render time for each example were displayed, it would help you decide if the extra intensity is worth the render time. From what I here, yes, rendering single frame only, render time is less important, although I understand some people have complex scenes that take 14 hours to render, I guess that COULD make a difference! ::::: Opera :::::