Hi, I have a couple of questions. The image here is just a fast and dirty render of my scene. I was experimenting with lights. If you look towards the back of the scene in the corner of the room, there is light illuminating part of the floor, right on the corner. This light seems to be coming from a spotlight that is in the hallway on the other side of the wall. Why is the light showing through the wall? The spotlight is placed below the height of the said wall. My other question is about render times. I tried rendering my scene using global illumination. After ten hours my computer pretty much just bogged down and I wasn't even able to abort the render, couldnt even ctl-alt delete the thing, had to reboot. I have a P4 3.2, 1 gig of ram, and a QuadroFX500 video card. Is this kind of render sluggishness normal? And in the same vein, do objects that are out of the frame affect the render time? In this scene for instance there are a few items on the bookshelves that are out of frame in this render, but that are fairly complex objects, would they affect render time even if they are out-of-frame? Thanks, H&B