Aye, just made this simple 'shroom in Rhino, then sent it over to Bryce 4 for rendering/texturing. Rhino is finally opening up to me, I feel like I'm over the hump of it's learning curve, like I could model anything! Although simple, I tried to recreate SSS-styled lighting from Bryce 4. Just a fake method, but does it look convincing? Wet enough? Too smooth? The transparency-driven shadows turned out cool, though, just 16 spots and one radial here...

SDL, Yeah the 'hump' for me in Carrara was to put a colored infinite plane on the ground and give the backgrounf some color so I could see what I was doing to my poor models. Sometimes it's just something simple like that. I'm not trying to compare the programs by any means, just saying I understand how nice it is to get past these humps. congratulations - I like the texture on the head of that mushroom! -TJ

Shadow: The top looks too metalic, rather like hammered metal, or as if it's been painted with 'Hammerite'paint. The colours are nice but I think the top needs to be smoother or at least not so indented....0.2p

Better yet, make a cave, stick a whole bunch of them all over the place, and make them bioluminescent shrooms. Bioluminescence rocks.

(grins) Thanks for the texture info, Sir Bryster, I'm on it... Slakker! You bastard! I already had the rest of the cave done, you spoiled my surprise! (laughs playfully!) It's ending up being an experiment in Bryce 5's True Ambience feature, and is the next image in my cave series. Thanks of course to OCDDoug for bringing "series-es" back in style... (heh heh) Here's a ridiculous 16-hour-plus render I started yesterday. This was on a Pentium 2 - 266MHz, 64MB RAM, all Bryce 4 and no postwork other than .jpg-izing...