I am greedy. I admit it. Animating two Vickies, both with full texture and hair with texture. Decided to see what full greed rendering would be like. P4 2.4 GHZ 500 MB RAM Video card has 64MB memory (does this matter, even?) Poser 4 with ProPak 2 instances of Vickie 3.0 in scened, both with hi-res texture applied Koz pony tail on one, messy hair on the other Animating to 320 x 240 30 frames per second 100% quality on compression, Full resolution 72 dpi Anti-alias on Shadows yes Only 1 light No clothing yet, or other props The resulting frames are beautiful. I'm rendering a brief 10-second movie and will post here, but it will be over 3 hours from now! This animation render is requring 38 seconds per frame. I am not necessarily unhappy about that, since, as I say, I am being greedy about the quality. Questions: 1) Does this rate seem normal to Poser people, or am I doing something wrong possibly. 2) I have two other applications on the way to me, Motion Builder and trueSpace 5.2 and wonder if these programs can render faster than the Poser 4 engine? I like animating in Poser, but will be looking into these other two programs for speed and animation features. 3) If I were to buy a rig just to render, what are the specs to go for? (DualProcessor?, MHZ, RAM, type of RAM, graphics card, etc.) Any insight welcome. ::::: Opera :::::