Gosh, a trans map for the eyelashes? I use them all the time and hadn't noticed any difference in render speed (you better not try Anton's peacock with its transmapped tail to which I added a second LOL) You may be right about faulty something or other, altho' I'm not sure how the difference between my 300 mhz and 128 RAM and yours would be-until a couple of years ago I was still working with one of my old 486's with 32 mg RAM, altho' not in 3D. Even 2D graphics were tedious, so you may be right. Don't we covet those with the 500 mhz, gaboodles of RAM and 20 Gigs of HD VBG?!? Diane