[Specialagentjim]

Originally posted by SGK
We are back in business! Thanks for all your help. Ended up being something wrong with one of the .max files that was merged. Think it was due to the fact that it was made and animated in MAX 4.2 and then uped to V5.

For ha-ha's rendered our not yet completed main scene with a 5 second simple camera move with 2 ray-traced lights (never used them before). Took over 3 hours on a Dell 8250 w/1GB RAM and the 3.06 GHz P4 HT processor (pseudo-dual)! This is going to be real fun!!!

Ahh, yes...4.2 to 5 is very bad... Whenever possible, stick with your version of max throughout the project. A lotta little technical glitches arise when you go from version to version.

But here's one for ya all to ponder...I made a robot in 3ds, been working on it for a while. Later, I tried transferring to my USB drive, and noticed I was out of room...

My Max file was 176megs...WHY? HOW? All questions I dont know...

Yeah, I dont have time to fiddle anymore, Im juss rebuilding the robot