Thanks PJF, that makes it clear. I rendered them again and noticed Bryce 5 option "save image as" saves the render as jpg in low, medium, high and max quality (I saved max), while Bryce 5.5 "save image as" has only the possiblity of jpg (or other format, but not compression). The jpg's therefore could have a difference in compression. So I rendered them again and exported the image as bitmaps, same resolution (901 K) and didn't find any major difference. I checked the rendertime reports, and the Bryce 5.01 gives me many times same errors. I rendered above image around ten times in both versions. Bryce 5.5 won the race at my pc 9 of the ten times (with more or less background processes running and both versions rendering alone or simultaneously). Mark, the above image indeed uses an image texture.

Message edited on: 04/29/2005 14:20

Message edited on: 04/29/2005 14:22

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