Anthanasius - The first cache is being ignored (it's in red) once IDL is turned on, so it doesn't matter what it is set to.

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I changed the transparency on the light fixtures from 90% transparent and 5% diffuse to 100% transparent and it sped up the render by about 10 minutes.  This tells me that my speed issues are because of my attempt to make the light fixtures partially transparent.

What I need to do is make the fixtures a separate prop or body part so I can make them invisible in ray tracing.  Trekkiegrrrl tried to talk me through it using the grouping tool, but I made a big mess when I tried that.

I've opened the figure's .obj file in Hexagon (V2.5) and can find the "body part" and material groups I want to make as a separate body part.  Is there a tutorial somewhere that would talk me through the steps I need to split off a new body part?  (Does this even make sense?  Am I using the correct terms?)

Also - I have 2 questions on point lights.  Does Poser treat these as infinitely tiny points or do they really have a size?  Is there any significance to the inner or outer circle that represents the point light or is it just the icon that was chosen?

Thanks again for the assistance.  This is a learning process.