[Salik Syed]

btw....displacement also takes a while.
Yes mental ray sometimes takes a bit longer than scaline it depends on the scene but i actually found that mray is a bit faster also the quality is like 20x better

also just having a raytrace map doesn't make it slow there are some other factors like whether it is transparent reflectivity....btw 8-11 hours is for scenes w/ much higher poly count.... 300k is nothing.. esp if you have trees and what not..., the car alone in the 1st scene is 300k polygons the buildings is like 70 k thhe plants are all very high too i forget the grand total ...