oh wow... lots of responses,....

we're at 96% completed and it says an hour and 32 minutes left - i'm inclined to think about another 5 hours.... mmmm, about 38 hours total so far (not pausing it yet to find out LOL)

grins

i have 4 gigs of memory, so setting up the hypervue shouldnt be too big a deal - but i tend to pout if i can't see what its rendering giggles

but will have to try that....

MyCat - very VERY cute kitty.... is yours a manx?  mine's a tailless wonder - and a hermaphrodite.  Nature wasn't kind to the poor kitty - she was very premature and its a wonder she survived - but survive she did and chose me to be her human servant-mommy.  as for the hair room - i've ripped out my own hair trying to figure that room out.  more power to those that have succeeded in learning without going bald in the process.

Thelby - i paused the render last night to just play for a little while - created my first ecosystem from scratch and dared to venture into that function editor for a few moments.  i'm addicted =D - and thank you =D

Stormchaser - i agree, its great being around folks who are as enthusiastic about these things as i am =D  my poor family... eyes start glazing over, their skin starts turning to stone.... and responses dimenish to "uhhuh.... "  and yeah, poser IS great for what it does - i used it for years before venturing to the Vue side.  i tried bryce and hated it.  i tried terragen - and got confuzzled, so eventually ignored the program.  3D Studio Max - a friend let me borrow her laptop for a week... within a day, i was ignoring that program in favor of solitaire - i was that confused.  Vue is the FIRST 3D application that i've worked with that has an intuitive interface.  (where would i find this - well, lets look here - yep, there it is!)  poser is now, like you, a means to set up a scene to import into vue =D  something that has completely surprised me is the fact that my chaos-kitty character imports into vue and i dont have to tweak her materials (i could, but she ends up looking "off")  She seems quite content letting the poser shader tree run her materials.  but anything with "normal" human skin - well, its pathetic LOL.  mmmm, GR, water, blurred reflections, and AA.... can't say that i have, but i wouldnt know if i had or not - i rarely pay close attention to which atmosphere i have selected, and i turn around and tweak 'em anyway, so half the time they end up being something completely different LOL.  this is the first one i'v done where i didnt touch the atmosphere settings and used that danged indoor radiosity atmosphere.  thank the heavens i decided AGAINST water..... chasing storms - wow.... i'm one that runs inside at the first sound of thunder.  part of why i love where i am in alaska - we only get maybe 5 or so t-storms a year, and they tend to be very VERY short in duration.

Silverblade.... yep, knew about tweaking the render settings, but didnt think this one would take THIS long.  if it was on hubby's laptop, it woulda bogged down completely by now and only be 1/3 finished.  man, i hope other folks like this image... chaos-kitty is posed rather.... unusually muahahahaha - and i think i just learned my lesson on not using radiosity outdoors LOL.  i dont mind letting a render run for days (i had to with poser numerous times - one poser image with a LOT of reflections & a bit of transparency took a week of rendering - and i got mad, cus at the end, i discovered the girl's eyes appeared to be crossed, which i didnt see until i rendered it large)

alexcoppo.... ooooo yay!  but see, i have to wait for OCTOBER - alaska doesn't distribute the permanent fund dividends until the first week in october (for those who were early signups, like me LOL)  PLEASE e-on work with me on this one????  i wouldnt mind upgrading to 6 infinite then a free upgrade to 7 infinite.....  and i thought i was going to have to get the modules the way you are... one at a time - but when i saw the upgrade for the same cost as that botanica module, i begged hubby for my anniversary pressie early LOL.  (his'll be in the mail in a few weeks... i got him an MP3/MP4 player).... you know... if that great a deal happens in september.... i'll eat a lot of ramen noodles that month to make sure i can upgrade LOL.

hmmm.... this render hasnt budged in 45 minutes.  sighs

its at the point where when it moves, and if i happen to see it.... i squeal with joy, do a happy happy dance, and go "IT MOVED IT MOVEEEEEEEEEEED"

huh... i think  see some sky up in those corners.

for something i thought was gonna be a simple little scene to render, its become a nightmarishly long wait.  V4, posh hair, bushy tail 2, that cool enchanted magic tree castle prop from cornucopia, one terrain with a modified ecosystem, ONE quadratic spot as a filler, and the dratted indoor radiosity atmostphere.  kitty's not even wearing any clothes, and there're no reflections LOL.

stares at the render some more.... man, i love dual monitors

nope, hasn't budged.

come on, give me 97%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  cheers her computer on  (singing)......
go, speedmonster, go!  (changed it in case of cpoyright issues using the actual lyrics)

IT MOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDDDD!!!! 97%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 hr, 19 minutes to go.... figure 1% every 45 minutes or so..... that means....a little over 2 hours to go chuckles

wonder whats on tv....

pads off humming the tune to speedracer... "go go, speedmonster, go!" (gonna go eyeball tutorials)

Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....

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