> Quote - Wow, how long did that take you to render?  Matmatic creates the file just fine for me. > But my machine chokes at everything but the very first Basic Coil when I try to render > it.  And I have a 2.8 GHz Pentium with 1 GByte of memory, so that should be > powerful enough. > What are your render settings, can you post a screen shot of them?

That's strange!
My machine is anything but top class (1.5GHz Athlon  / 768M RAM), the settings (posted) aren't special at all and this renders in 30 seconds.
The "cables" are actually the size of bagginsbill's columns (300% scale, 800% y scale) so I guess the displacements are rather large.
I had thought that maybe it was because I had been working in Centimeters and not Poser units - but that didn't change anything.
When I increase the Displacement Bounds in the Render up to 10, still takes less than a minute.

Another question.....
The displacements bounds of all the individual objects were at 200.
I tried using other values - but no matter what value I used, after rendering the value wer all back at 200.
Is this normal?

Rô

My favourite question is "Why?", my second favourite is "Why not?"