slainveteran - that worked perfectly!

specified frames and now it's rendering ;)

at work VNC'd to my home pc watching it slowly render each frame - dont know what's slower - the rendering, or mt vnc connection... still thanks to you all for the quick replies.


side question - is povray single threaded? or is multithreading another option I have to enable?

edit -http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/160/
nvm

hmm, maybe I can run 2 with first half and last half of the anims...