Just wanted to express my annoyance over the last few hours!! I have been working some more on my bee scene...a couple of days ago, I started getting those horrible 'no memory, fatal error, system unstable messages when trying to render. My scenes got all of about 125,000 polys! Im not particularly a technical person, but my computer is very new and pretty nice. Luckily, I have worked on enough maya projects now to know to duplicate a scene file every now and then as backup. Which I did in this case.

But then this evening...again!... one minute my scene was rendering at around 5 and a half minutes (less than it had been doing in the original file), then suddenly it was 53 minutes. Then back to 7, then it was running out of memory on me. Don't understand why it does this, I wasn't making any dramatic changes to the scene, no change in render settings.

I don't know. Can have you walking on eggshells can't she sometimes. :headbang: