Looks lovely Laurie, I always liked the ballroom.

As for the half naked pinups, well, blatant excuse to over use latex materials.  It is going to a friend as a belated bday present. :p

The issue I am having with my street scene I am sure is happening on the Poser side of the equation.  Using Stonemason's victorian street, made the snow invisible but am getting some weird arsed artifacts on the pavement now.  Checked for Normals Forward yup they are, I redid the materials to be sure they were P4 style all the way through (basically were, just had to kill the ambient and adjust the diffuse and specular).  Hid the Poser ground to be sure it wasn't that peeking through in spots since the pavement isn't perfectly flat, nothing seems to get rid of them.  No AO, but Lux wouldn't read that anyways.  So, I am well and truly stumped.  I may have to find different ground to use.