Hi Jopson,

I've got 1gig of fairly good ram so that should be ok. I just quit and restarted the tutorial, and it is working now.

Just experimenting with Maya's rendered just now, and to be honest I'm finding it hard to get anything decent looking, even on a simple scene. What setting should I be looking at, just to get some decent shadows? At the moment, it looks very flat.

Also, in any given lights settings, if I select "use Depth Map Shadows", then the lighting looks very restricted and artificial. If I select "Use Ray Trace Shadows", the light itself looks better, but it passes through and object in its path.

cheers,

g.