I don''t see my system being very slow... Its a P2-500 with 128 MB of RAM... I know it''s not much for modeling but unfortunately, it''s what I have. Anyway, I get some objects on the screen... let''s say for example, I''m building a space scene which has the following objects: * Standard Cylinder x 2 * Standard Tube transformed into a NURB and modified slightly x 2 * Standard Sphere transformed into a NURB and modified elongated * Standard Sphere Half Hemisphere x 2 * Standard Cylinder transformed into a NURB and modified x 2 * 2 Capsules * 2 Standard Torus * 3 Standard Spheres 1/4 hemisphere * 1 Box * 1 Box transformed into a NURB for a round bottom * 11 Object Groups Consisting of * 1 Sphere 1/2 hemisphere * 2 Standard tubes * 2 Standard Boxes Multiply that by two... (two objects that contain those objects) My PC is dragging by now... any ideas what I am doing wrong? Is it normal or is it the way I am creating the objects? Am I using too many NURBS? This is for a stillshot but I hope to get it to be an animation soon... however it is just TOO slow to animate. (Click... drag......... .... Click............) Anyway, Thanks for the help. I''m sure I''ll have a lot more questions soon. E.D.

What version are you running? If it''s v.3 then setting the display to OpenGL will significantly improve your speed over the HEIDI software renderer. Careful though, if your system doesn''t support OpenGL you''ll have to edit the config file before you can get into the program again. Other than that about all you can do is get more raw processing power. I have an Athlon 750 and it bogs down at times.

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Well, I''m using OpenGL and version 2.5...

Goto

File --> Summery Info

and look at mesh total. how many faces does this scene have?
software rendering is slow... try OpenGL since (what video card do you have?) nVidia and practically everything else with unbroken GL drivers will support textures, texture perspective correction and faster rendering...

But yeah, things can go slow, remember to hide objects in the scene when you''re editing if you don''t need then...this always helps...

there you go!

P.S 256MB RAM sped up render times for me alot, so if you have afford another 128MB RAM that will help overall MAX performance.
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i''m running on a p2 366 128mb ram laptop. no acceleration. it bogs down at about 30k-50k polys. you just have to be selective about your objects. when you''re animating, hide all the static objects and the objects that don''t interact with the primary attention. not only will this speed RT rendering, it''ll be easier to see what you''re doing too. and also, follow everyone''s advice too.

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Wow, didn''t even occur to me to hide objects.... That would GREATLY improve speed... *Bonks Himself on the Head*

I have 12940 Vertices and 24076 Faces contained within 165 objects and 1 light.

If you set it over to O-GL and you want to set it back just run the .exe with -h on the end to get the config window.

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