Not to change the subject, but I noticed a couple of annoying bugs in Bryce 5. 1) If you solo an object, any lights carry over into the solo mode - while that may be helpful for sky lights, it is not for nearby artificial lights. 2) I have a scene in a cube (a room), yet changing sky settings in the skylab changes lighting in the cube. What's going on here?

I never use volumetric effects because I don't have the patience for even the preview. I will try to change all materials to "Simple and fast" and see if it is a material. Good idea. I have 2 dials with glass faceplates, 2 LEDs (glass). Is there a way to simplify groups. Turning them into meshes, etc.?

Nothing else running. I have over 100M partitioned for Bryce (I have a total of 512M RAM). I never anti-alias above the 2nd setting (fine). I am rendering a small 500 x 600 at 72dpi just to see the image and that takes way too long.