Closing the VFB takes forever - why ?

[alexyork]

Nonono. I mean that you can click on things that you shouldn't F.e. if you change a material, it will change how the rest of the render comes out (or crash, depending on exactly what you changed).

If you want to fire a render and continue working, simply use backburner, or make a script to fire a 3dsmaxcmd render.

Best regards,
Vlado

Oh I see... had me all excited there for a minute. I'm allergic to backburner at the best of times.

If you did ever find a way to enable "background rendering" in a similar fashion to how Photoshop now works that would be tremendously useful.