On render times:
well if you are doing SCANLINE rendering of course it's a hell of a lot quicker!! :) Vue is purely ray tracing. ALso, note the size I render at, 1680x1050, with radiosity, at very high settings. I'm not rendering frames, I'm rendering stills, veyr big difference! :)

And as Chipp notes, render times vary enormously. Some folk are good at tweaking render settings vs the scene, it's an art itself and makes a huge difference.
Me, I don't mind it taking many hours, but less than a day, as I want a beautiful final still.

Hm, guess I'll need ot buy the maintenance plan. Rather not, as I think it's a waste of E-On's time having so many folk able to demand more help, but that's a potentially a great saving for when v8 comes out, and on my budget, damn right i think of the future :p

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