THanks everyone for all this imput. As for what I meant, I have the general idea of what it will look like from a render I did before adding 2 of the water sprays and the little render preview at the top left corner. As to why I rendered so large, I can't imagine doing hair and clothing at a smaller resoloution. I don't know what lightning is...like I said this is my first real experience with Bryce. As for my system I have PII,450 mhz;40 gig HD, 320 mb's of RAM so it's not a bad machine and has always been good to me. Though I am fairly certain it hates me right now. lol Course we are at 19.5 hrs and its only at 12% I am wondering if stoppping it is worth all this trouble. Or what? I am so not sure. Thanks everyone for all the help, it's greatly appreciated. :)