Thank you David. That worked and I was able to finish my scene, but now I've come upon another problem. I'm trying to batch render, yet no frames are being produced. I fiddled around with diagnostics and here's what I found: - This scene contains nodes with animated visibility, this requires Optimize Non-animated Display Visibility to be turned off. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Mesh has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle19 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint16 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint8 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint5 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle17 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle9 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle10 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle13 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle16 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:ikHandle3 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:ikHandle5 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint1 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint4 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle22 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle20 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle21 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:volumeLight1 has animated visibility. // Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2013/mentalray/scripts/mentalrayDiagnostic.mel line 524: 18 warnings, see script editor for details. // RenderDiagnostics; MENTAL RAY RENDER DIAGNOSTICS: Miscellaneous - This scene contains nodes with animated visibility, this requires Optimize Non-animated Display Visibility to be turned off. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Mesh has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle19 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint16 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint8 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint5 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle17 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle9 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle10 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle13 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle16 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:ikHandle3 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:ikHandle5 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint1 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:joint4 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle22 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle20 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:Advanced_Model:nurbsCircle21 has animated visibility. - Node Scene_2___Falling:volumeLight1 has animated visibility. // Warning: file: C:/Program Files/Autodesk/Maya2013/mentalray/scripts/mentalrayDiagnostic.mel line 524: 18 warnings, see script editor for details. // unifiedRenderGlobalsWindow; I'm not entirely sure what this means or how to fix it, but all I can see at this point is a message saying, "// Rendering with mental ray... //" and nothing more. Shouldn't it be showing what images are being rendered and what % of them are finished? I was hoping to render while I was out today, but then Maya gave me this issue. Help please? Thank you -Connor