Ooooo I actually have 3 other machines atm that I could use, Laurie. I'll have a look on the LuxRender site and see how that's done.

Oh, I'm plenty patient... last night I stopped it (nervous Nellie that I am, didn't want a render chugging all night and potentially overheating the machine... like it won't happen during the day :lol:) and restarted it today, so it's been going cumulatively for 14 1/2 hours, now. I'll just let it keep chugging.

I'll need to check and see what sampler I'm using and which filter: I just sort-of went with the default. So you don't think the amount of objs and textures and transmaps (ivy leaves) and that might be slowing it down a bit? Also, the render size is 2000 x 1800... doesn't have anything to do with it? Oh, the S/p are now up to 104... BB said something about 400 gives a nice clear piccie? I might get away with less, tho, given the subject matter.

Oh, and I'm using your gems shaders in her earrings. Laurie, this is like I found a new Poser/matroom to play in! Only better!! YAY!!!

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