Stupid topic header, ha ha I tricked you! No, seriously, folks, I finally got to do a "good" render of a window concept. It's grouped all correctly, now I just have to do the scaling, if necessary... This is all Bryce 4, no postwork, and the "Outside" is just an old render of some hills. I wanted to put screens in, but you'd need TIR to make that work properly. Well not TIR, but Ray Depth... Still, any feedback or suggestions would be great! Thanks for checking it out...

Here's a wireframe comp for ya wireframe people...

I really like that one, nice textures and modeling. I have only one question, the wood plane under the window looks like it's about to fall or kind of broken? Or maybe it's just me..

Aye, I tilted the sill purposely, though I admit it seems odd. Don't know why, but homeowners demand tilted sills, these days... Here's a postwork version of it... I fear my work monitor is too dark for good balancing, I took the image home and ran some filters and levels on it. Thanks for calling me out on the tilt, though, Elantriell!

Is there a reason too, why there is some sort of a broken wooden frame on the right side fo the window? you can see blue sky thru it. also..the blur on the candles and around it..lessen that..I use glasses..my eyes are watering!! Love the emotion I get thru it though..pretty nostalgic

Nice. I like 'em both, but something about the second one gets me. Maybe it's the darkness with the candles...I like it. Now (just an observation here) you have candles, which look excellent btw, but you also have a bright blue sort of sunny sky in the background. A little bit of a contradiction, I guess.

Aye, indeed, it's not meant to be a scene of artistic action, more just a display of a semi-complex booleans and their families and whatnot. The "blue sky" you see, Eriosia, is actually the refraction of the glass. It occurs on all windows, only we dont' tend to notice it as being "fake" in real life, because we know it's real. The blur comes from Flaming Pear's "Melancholytron" filter, I love it but I suppose it's not for every image!

OK, Shadow, in the second render there is more mood set to the image perhaps you should enclose the inside (the room side) of the window as not to allow any external light in except for the candles and perhaps some fill light so that it appears that most of the light is coming from the candles from the inside of the room. You can then try playing with some volume lighting to give the effect of the sunlight beaming and straying into the darkened room. Great scene!