modelhead, not necessarily. You just need to turn the power up a lot if you dont set the background to black.

I haven't read all the posts in the other thread, but I'd recommend the component approach. Just break your model into components and then save each component out to its own file. Then you can work on the individual files, and update them back into main model later on. This also allows for alternative versions of specific elements since you can have multiple files for any component. Then on top of this if smaller files are slow follow guidelines by others about having shadows off, not show textures, outliner closed, etc.

@latetzki said: Well what about this one then? Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 Memory: 4GB 667MHz DDR (2x2Gb) Graphic Card: nVidia GeForce Go 8600M (512 MB) I have a Vaio with an 8400GT card and it runs SU fine.

@tomsdesk said: In the "camera" pulldown menu you'll find the "standard" flyout menu...there are the "top" and 4 side views (you'll need to turn off "perspective" if you want a true 2d). Thanks.

@watkins said: Of course, we should both be out enjoying the sunshine, shouldn't we. or celebrating the Queen's birthday!

at asgvis.com there are many .visop (render options) and .vismat (vray materials) and download all of them, try to download the vray manual (pdf) and vray manual scenes (skp files to practices).... it is easy and funny!

@unknownuser said: @grizzler said: I've just read through the entire thread and I just wanted to say thanks for all the info'. This kind of stuff is invaluable to us Newbies who are only just gtting to grips with Push/Pull . There seem to be 2 front runners in the "Ease Of Use" category, Podium and Maxwell. I'd be interested to see which of these two most of you think is actually the easiest to use (not necessarily the best at rendering, but simple for someone with my very limited skills to use) keep in mind grizz that this thread is nearing 5 years old.. while much of the info still applies today.. some of it doesn't.. NNOOOOOOOOoooooooooo!