Looking good Shonner...

As you progress can you you share your settings?

bwtr - what I have done so far is put a spot light in both the fire and the fish tank - both with a gel on them and invoked caustics in the render.

I think my issue with the tank is down to using the proper gel on the spot to get that slightly dappled effect .

As for Carrara choking - I'm on an AMD 3200 with 2.5 gig ram and Windows XP.

I did a quick experiment last night night and I can render the pz3 of the daz figures nicely - same as far the room - but put them together and I get a memory allocation error.

So I think some rethinking is in order on the morphs/ textures in the figures as I really want the ambience that this room gives the scene.

As this is for publication - failure is not an option - so back to the fray!!!!

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