Hi everybody, Each new scene I'm making is more complex and asks more and more time rendering. A question hits me: I upload, buy and make many material presets: does the size of the differents presets librairies (skies, materials, objects) have an influence on the RAM used by Bryce? (I'm using Bryce 4-1,4 Ghz-256 meg of RAM). Or: will I have a best rendering time if I unload all the presets librairies before rendering a big scene? Thanks

Ram has little to do with rendering times, it's my understanding that rendering is pcu power, the more powerful your pcu the faster Bryce renders. More ram will help with working in and creating bigger or more complex scene file

What you need is more CPU Power to render scene faster. Stephen is right about RAM, only good for doing bigger scene. I have 512 MB of RAM and when i had 256 MB of ram and doing render now, there is no difference. The only change to make the render faster was to have a Dual Processor System.

The reason why it takes long to render some scenes, it's because of the materials your are using, if they are very complex, they take longer, but simple materials, render's faster.:-) Art

Thanks for your answers. My imagination is going faster than my CPU power :-( !!

AMD has very reasonably priced processors. Try looking for the XP+ -series.

Had an Athlon 1800XP with 512mb of DDR 2700 RAM and a GeForce4 TI 4600 built at CompUSA last week. Oh My! Takes me about half the time to render as it took on my Dell 8000 Inspiron laptop with a P3 800 with 512mb SDRAM and a GeForce2M. CompUSA has very reasonable prices (I think) and a nice warranty on their custom built systems. The one above ran me about 1700 bucks with WinXP Professional (very nice OS so far). The case is the same as what Alienware uses. Scotty, I need more power!