I exported > 3ds and Bryce said there were 800,000 polygons. Each mouse movement took ages so I dumped it. This here is a simple Rhino pic. Any suggestions? Tnx

For now Bryce is the only app able to render gems as it does with the TIR option, so I'd still like to do it

hmmm...only 800,000? i've used terrains with 2.5 million and no problem with the mouse. make sure to turn down the wireframe resolution when working with complicated objects.

I occasionally get the error message... "Warning, You Have Moved Your Mouse. Please Reboot So That Microsoft Changes Can Take Effect. Would You Like To Reboot Now?"

I never encountered this wireframe thing yet, going to check Tnx

It isn't the polygons, it's got to be something else. I dropped the infinite plane and wireframe res set to 8 I'd appreciate some hints

I hate to suggest something dumb, but how much RAM do you have? what other things are running in the background?(check the system tray, and if you are using winXP, you can see what processes are being run, when you Ctrl+Alt+Del). if you are running WinXP you should have at least 256MB RAM, better if you have more. if you do something like Folding@Home or SETI@Home or some other distributed computing project, you may want to shut it off while you are working. hth big_hoovie

I have 128 and up to now it worked fine. If the mem is the problem I'll have to find ways to manage.

Time for 512MB RAM. XP needs 128MB just to run. Hopefully, you're running Win98 with that 128MB. I like the pin, so far. SHONNER http://www.shonner.com

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I'm using XP + 128. That's the best I can do for now

You definitely want to consider more mem. 256 is considered the minimum today, with 512 or more for math intensive processes (like rendering). Memory is cheap!