@Angela: I'd be glad to share the ball mat or mail it to you if you're interested. It's not a DTE play, but I have it in my presets. It uses a photo texture by Mayang to drive bump. @catlin: did you use True Ambience in Dark Valentine? In this last image of mine I tried it again, but I'm not satisfied with the results so, once again, I turned it off. Not much a difference, IMO. Not to mention the incredible rendertimes that using TA implies. Now I'm rendering without it, with Softshadows and DOF at 144 rpp: 4 hours compared to the 2 days (!) of the render with TA turned on (and 64rpp, not 144). @danamo: thanx a lot. It's only a WIP, I'm currently rendering the final with a fake HDRI sphere surrounding it. S.