Very cool image Bop! Did you have the point lights with shadows turned on or off? I don't even know if the Vue 4 demo can turn the shadows on or off, but if so, you could probably get away with a much lower render time if you turned all the stars' shadows off and used just two or three normal lights for casting shadows. It's the calculations Vue has to do for shadows that will increase render time, along with anything volumetric or transparent. Sharen, you can get stars like that in the volumetric light editing box by selecting Random Streaks, and playing around with the Intensity, Amount and Sharpness controls. Also, the rotate slider is pretty cool. :)