Thanks for the kind words. Without breaking into a commercial, the scene is my own product, called Home One Apartment at DAZ. It's a 5-room apartment and that's the living room. The render was done with the default lighting. I just moved one of the lights to shine on the carpet. The carpet is one of 50 props/figures in an upcoming expansion pack for the apartment (living-room contents), although the pack can be used with any house at all. Probably the reason it looks good is that I've been making separate poser and DS versions of my products for the last year. So, if you use DS, you don't need to tweak anything. Get the DS version and it's all set up and ready to render. mac