Originally posted by happymat27 Hi there Rob, it's an neasy mistake to make (having done it 3 times this week myself) but have you got the correct camera selected in the render globals? Take it easy, Mat. hey Mat, had a nice resting time.......??? mann this Maya 3D is realy cool surely got a new addiction ;-) it is good the rendering sometimes takes a while so i can still get some food and a walk through the forest.....hahaha....... the latest project on witch i found this camera issue www.ieoie.nl/downloads/Flower_Act1.avi this is the first camera trail today i started renedering each layer one by one for after effects in stead of building the whole scene in maya itself had some serious lighting conflicts....... the question.... it is not the camera issue, or i understand you wrong see..... in both settings cam1 selected www.ieoie.nl/Maya/2xCam1.JPG the result in the hardwarerenderer www.ieoie.nl/Maya/2xCam1_result.JPG the little line in the middle is now over full screen displayed i get this same result in the mental ray renderer somewhere along the project i had an error all worked well, so i did not see the problem, but maybe this is causing it it was some kind a error like "cannot locate object in world" or something like that i just went on and all worked till i tried to get a hardware render of my newly added particles thx for your quick reply..... lets hope you have some more ideas on this one........ if ya like to see the file for yoursef i will wrap it in and send ya a download link keep up the good works bro...... namaste Rob out......