There is a definite loss of detail this close in. For less extremem shots I think this strategy is worth it. While I did not see much of a gain in overall rendertime with the smaller texture, I believe that if one reduced the size of all the textures one could kick the bucket size up and not run into memory errors. Thus rendertime should benefit. Another way of looking at it: by reducing texture size, you can get more models into the scene with decent quality. ::::: Opera :::::