Hi, I posted this over on the bryce forum but no feedback, so I'm posting it over here too. :) I finally finished my waiting image. After roughly 38 hrs render time and a few more hrs on post op. Credits: JeffH for the hair and Dthuregrif for the freckles texture. Also a big thanks to Foxhollow for his help with the hair. Thanks O.F! :)

I"ve seen this image on the gallery already, and I think she's absolutely beautiful!! Nice hard work! Happy posing,... er,... um,... brycing. Radart.

Hmmmmm...you did something to this...not the gallery pic...errrrr....aHA! The backgroung isn't as sharp...a litte "depth-of-field" skullduggery! I like it...makes her stand out...the dress texture is scrumptious...and that shadow on her eye drives me crazy...something about it I like. :)

Yes Fox dear, as you know very well I did a blur to hte background.... Or was that some other O.F I was talking to on ICQ???

Beautiful! 38 hours? Yikes!

Diane (I'm the 'other' Diane) said it for me-yikes!. I noticed in the Bryce forum that you mentioned a 38 hr. render and I wondered why. The only reason that I could come up with are the trees but they don't look like volumetric material or the like. However, I'm guessing that's the reason-lots of 'pieces/parts'-trees, as I understand it, take lots of render time, altho' I used 3 in my ant pic and it wasn't too bad-maybe an hour. One other slight possibility might be the dress material, but I don't think so. What's your guess? That's a terribly long render time for an image with not a huge number of objects (or did you do it in fine art mode, etc.-things like that can add time, I'm sure). Fox, I'm thinking that shadow on her eye is from the fantasy hair-I bet there is a shadow from the hair on her right side and it looks like up at the top of the shadow in the hair line that that might have been a 'lock' that would have made a shadow from the sun angle (look at the tree shadows)-but now looks different after post processing. Nice image-I should have commented in Bryce forum, but I've been scrambling just to keep up with posts and do my own 'real work' which may soon overwhelm any attempt to do much in Poser/Bryce for a few months. Diane (the other)

Yup, 38 hrs. All because of the eyelashes. I decided to try my hand at using a trans map on the eyes. And the fact i'm stuck on a 166 with 32 megs of ram, that I think are faulty :( As for the shadow, yeah, the lock is still there, its hte angle of the camera that has it where it is. thanks for the kind words.

Oh forgot to mention the 38 hrs wasn't in fine art. It was normal quality. I'm not game to try it in fine art.

you gotta rotate some of the trees so they don't look identical. I know it's a fine point, but for weird people like me it can really get to you grin other than that, great image =) The eyes and skin is especially nice SewerRat

Gosh, a trans map for the eyelashes? I use them all the time and hadn't noticed any difference in render speed (you better not try Anton's peacock with its transmapped tail to which I added a second LOL) You may be right about faulty something or other, altho' I'm not sure how the difference between my 300 mhz and 128 RAM and yours would be-until a couple of years ago I was still working with one of my old 486's with 32 mg RAM, altho' not in 3D. Even 2D graphics were tedious, so you may be right. Don't we covet those with the 500 mhz, gaboodles of RAM and 20 Gigs of HD VBG?!? Diane

Oh yeah! And the bad news is I won't be upgrading in the next few weeks. My washing machine died yesterday. So all those pics waiting for the upgrade to get finished, are gonna be staying that way. :(

I totally understand. First things first, huh?!? None of this "don't tell your spouse, hide the receipt" for a lot of us-LOL. Diane

Oh so true Diane... some of us haveta save up for everything and then, use that for things like washing machines.. microwaves. (Gee one of these days I'l lreplace that, but no hurry. I can cook without one.. we did it before, doing it again!)