are you on Mac or PC? Which OS? When you render in Poser, do you as a seperate process? If on PC: what's TaskManager telling you?

My thoughts: essentially, QueueManager just starts FireFly as a separate process, and issues three calls. First for IDL pass, then for SSS pass, then for Render. The image file is made upfront, and starts empty. So apparently, the thing chokes in something. In TaskManager, you can see Firefly running, at some processor load and some mem usage.

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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.

visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though