I'm going to have to abandon the surface replicator with distrbution. It only sees 2 colors black and white. if it isn't one it's the other, so 99% white is black. Meaning no gradation, if I showed you distribution map I used you would swear it was solid white, as you can tell from the picture, it isn't.

Still I think it is to the point of final render, itching to get to one of a dozen or more other scenes lol.

As you can see most of my scenes are portrait style so I'm trying to get away from them.