Quote - I usually use Vue for outdoor scenes, but a scene I was working on in Carrara simply won't load anymore (I can't seem to get more than three Millenium figures into Carrara on my 2.5gb 1.8ghz machine, but I can do at least 10 in Vue)...

I'm wondering if there are any good tutorials out there for lighting an indoor scene in a room with no windows.

Should I use global illumination or global ambiance or other indirect lighting? Should I set up any haze? I desire my figures to be over a foggy pit, but in clear air themselves...

I can post a thumb of what I did in Carrara a bit later on, it's got about half my desired scene... and ever since the app just crashes when I try to add more. I should have known better than to try to get any use out of that app. :)

Essentially I want clear air, with strong shadows as if from torches or candlelight, and a foggy glowing mist underneath the scene. The figures are then holding a number of glowing items which themselves then give off a little light and make more shadows...

But outside of even my particular needs, any tutorials on indoor lighting would be valuable to find, as I'll probably have more indoor needs in the future.

Curious, I can get Carrara5.1 to render more Poser objects than Vue5I -- but not many more.  Do you have texture spooling turned on in Carrara?  Are all unused masters purged from the scene?  I'm not trying to start some silly Carrara vs. Vue here, as I like both applications, but do have different uses for them at times.

Carrara does get very finicky with multiple volumetric clouds, and using them while trying to render a bunch of Poser figures is hard to do.  I usually have to remove something to get such files to render.

All 32 bit applications are suffering from lack of memory (I understand that the 32 bit version of C4D has similar problems), and until we get Vista, and the new 64 bit Mac OS on line, things will get no better.