Hi People Well it's been a while now since I applied SR1 to P6 and up to now I've been able to do some pretty complex renders with a single figure with none of the 'memory' problem's of Pre SR1. So, today I needed a three figure piece as reference for a painting i'm about to do and thought i'd give it a go in Poser6. There're 3 V3s with fairly large textures applied, they all have hair (not dynamic) and all have boot's. I set my scene in Poser and prepair myself for a lengthy render, press the button and about 5 mins later get this; (Pic) DOH! DOH! I try a further half dozen times and get the same result so I reduce the demand's on the render until finally I get my Pic rendered on the most basic setting on the P6 'Automatic' settings. Now considering that my whole purpose in doing this render was to get something approaching realistic light and shadow my time could have been better spent watching a SG1 DVD! I s'pose I can count myself lucky that at least I still have the PZ3 saved..before SR1 that would be gone as well!! Using Poser 6 is now a VERY unfunny experience for me..Someone please tell me that I'm doing something wrong bigstyle! And roll on SR2!

Attached Link: http://www.e-frontier.com/article/articleview/1230/1/428/

*"Someone please tell me that I'm doing something wrong bigstyle!"* You answered the question yourself: *"with fairly large textures applied"* The cure can be found at the link.

Thank's for the link stewer, that's interesting and i'll now give that a go for future piece of mind but I'm dead sure I've done more complex renders than this in P5...OK it did take a LONG time but it never used to 'bum out' as readily as P6 does! But then I s'pose some might say that's a good feature? Hmm, maybe i should come at this whole P6 thing from a different direction! I do genuinly love some of the new features in P6, my personal favorite is the extended Library pallete which i have stretched right across my second monitor!! Thanks again stewer

I have some times found that view 5 is better for really complex poser scenes as far as rendering goes, and if oyu have the lighting addon light tune you can have so much more controll over the render than in poser as far as lighting and shadow are concerned. View 5 does seem to taks a while to import the figers but it seems fine with larger textures too. dont know if this helps. ivew just renderd a scene with mic 3 and v3 along witl a crow a bunch of props and clothes and hair and it did it fine, reducing the bucket size in the render settings helps - i tend to render at 2000 wide by what ever deep at 300dpi and dont often run in t problems with p6. ( touch wood....lots and lots of it!!!!)