i love this multi-threaded thread! 'Yes we can hold three conversations at once.'

There are certain implications in bagginsbill's project having to do with speed of render, not to mention flexibility of interior design. It would take some getting used to, perhaps a paradigm of 'painting virtual planks and texture with shader brush" or something like that. 

For wood, if you get grain with variety, easy tweaking of the stain, control of the bevel of every edge and reflection, and you can do this without much geometry and without lighting geometry, your render can be very fast, I'd bet. 

Add to that no real AO and perhaps raytrace not necessary, yet you get the requisite shadows and 'dirt' in corners and seams....I'd say this is a poweful interiors and set system that is through the envelope. I look forward to learning it and 'constructing' a set with it.

Note: on your May 23, 2007 3:31 pm post   [[I WISH THESE POSTS WERE NUMBERED]] note there is reflection on the two top surfaces, let you are saying there was no raytrace on. Looking forward to seeing how that figures in.

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