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I just uploaded an image to my gallery. Spent weeks working on it (for and hour or so a day). Built the enviroment in Bryce around two Poser figures. Committed to the mesh a week ago. Rendered it today. Uploaded it. Then realized that the fairies aren't cute. They were cute in Poser, I swear.

Quick note. I couldn't find a deer anywhere for free to put in the background, so I was looking at other options. 2D pic, Rearrange the trees... I asked my wife what she thought I could do with the clearing. Without answering the question she agreed that it needed a deer or unicorn or something. A Unicorn! DUH! Thanks honey.

as far as i remember, there was a free horn at r'osity yesterday. use it to "convert" the poser horse... actually i did not look at the pic, sorry. would not be the best idea at the moment to do so (at work...).

Actually I find the fairies cute, I think what you are see though is that their textures are a bit harsh. Maybe make the scene a slight bit darker, or make the fairies' less relective (change the specularity?). It might also helo to very slightly blurr the image. mike

ohhhh you GOT a unicorn ... (now at home, looking at the pic) i think the lighting is the problem. should be softer somehow, and a bit more of shadow. but that is just an opinion.

Actually I think its the ambience setting in bryce that needs lowering. Diffusion plus ambience should total 100. I normally find that diffuse 69, ambience 31 works well.

Thanks everyone. It's probably the lighting after all cause the are cute Poser. I'm pretty clueless when it comes to lighting and the various texture settings. Going to have to track down the manual and some tut's on that I guess. I adjust the textures as soon as I import to Bryce, build the rest of the scene, and then do the lights. The fairies are lit by six lights in a hemisphere and a textured parallel light to simulate reflection off the water, I think the textured light washes them out. You can see it on her legs, but it just looks wierd everywhere else.

in that case, i'd try to dim half of the lights - which ones depends on where they are located. also ambient lighting counts in! since it casts no shadow, ambient light may ruin all 3dimensional looks. now i just talk of my PovRay experience, where ambient light is probably handled differently from bryce, but i think some experimentation won't harm.