Hi, my first post here, im currently coming to an end of my 3rd year at uni doing architecture, im trying to finish of a model I have been making in Max. Im not really too hot on max but can do bits and pieces.

Part of my model features 7 structures, very similar to construction cranes, I modelled this with just lots of boxes and cyclinders and copying each section several times and then finally grouping them all together. The final model of this really starts to slow down max when it is duplicated 7 times, also when I try and render with a skylight and shadows turned on I get a message something along the lines of, advanced raytracer shadows ran out of memory.

I have tried using the cranes file as an xref into a file with the rest of the model but this does not seem to really help either.

The below picture is the only one I had on me at work but shows the cranes to the right, could anybody take a look at them and tell me if there is a way to make them one shape that wouldn't use up so many resources or something? Looking at some of the work on here im sure what I have done cant really be maxing out the program. What am I doing wrong?

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My computer is dual core, 4gb ram so I dont think thats the problem.

Many Thanks for any help.

Simon

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