Has this pic been resized down? If not, 16 hours to render this is far, far, far too long. (Unless this was re-sized down from something 8x this big) Looks like you have a number of lights, with soft shadows activated and rendering at 36rpp. Yes/No? My own angle on keeping rendering times lower; -You got a lot of lights going on but I see no key shadows, probably because of soft shadows being on(?) This is all cool yet, how many lights really need to have their shadows activated? *(My own #1 rule) Be very stingy with what lights need to have their shadows even activated. *(My own #2 rule) Is there any visual difference at all between rendering on "Regular" vs "Super Fine"@36rpp? (I see some small diameter, catwalk support rods coming down, but that might be about it that would benefit from rpp - and those could be plop rendered) I don't know for sure, unless being able to render it myself and spot any real differences. *Does your metal have any reflection to it? If so, this setup looks like you could get away with killing all reflection value in the majority of your metal, doing this would speed up render times. -------------- Anyway, all that stuff aside...this is an awesome scene! Very, VERY nicely created. Job freaking well done, dude. ;o) AgentSmith

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