Hi.

I just uploaded an image to the galleries (http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=1205040&Start=1&Sectionid=0&filter_genre_id=0&WhatsNew=Yes) Warning, has nudity, but I am having a problem with the original file.  Let me start from the beginning..

 

I started by creating a single poser scene with 3 figures in it.  2 Are based on V3 and one on A3, then added three more figures for the hair for each.  Next, after posing them and saving the file, I opened my C5 and opened the scene file I had created for the building that they are in.  This was a fairly complex model, with multiple light sources.  I managed to keep the transparents down to next to none though.

 

Next I touched up and finalized the room model, then imported the poser scene into C5 using transposer, keepign the link to the P6 file, but not importing the lighting or animations..  No problems so far and the scene imported into the hall with no problems.  Next I created three groups, one for each main figure and their hair.  I resized the three new figure groups to about 50% to get them to scale with the rest of the scene.  I then added some lighting and special effects, and set the final position for them.  This is when the first of the headaches occured.  I tried initially for a 1600x1200 200DPI render, using Indirect Lightin and only ambient occlusion, I set all other settings at about mid level.  I tried the render and got the common Memory Allocation Error.  Now I am running an Athlon 64x2 with 2GB physical RAM and about 100GB of hard disk space available...  I changed some of the settings, turned off indirect lighting altogether, reduced the antialiasing quality etc, changed it to only 100DPI and managed to get it to render.

 

After the render as complete, I realized I needed to change some of the lighting, but I was tired and saved the changes and closed C5.  No problems during the final save or the shutdown.  A few hours later, I reopened C5 and tried to open the file.  It looked like it was opening fine, but afterthe bar got all the way across, I got a (An unknown error has occured during the open operation.) message.  It simply will not let me reopen any of the saved versions I have with the figures imported.  Has this happened to anyone else?  Also the figure quality in the final render was not nearly as good as in P6.

 

I think I am going to have to resort to rendering the Guild hall itself in  C5, then rendering each figure seperately in P6, then putting them together in PSP X and adding lighting there.  I really wish C5 could render P6 docs as well as the P6 Firefly renderer.  It does so well on other objcts but makes even the best textured P6 figures look like plastic dolls.  Oh well, it anyone has any suggestions or comments, please let me know.  I would attach the C5 file here but it is absolutely huge.

 

Thanks in advance, Rich.