Quote - Here's the latest... I was playing around with the bloom setting on the renderer... Setting it on low... Still having a dicken of a time trying to get the grainy out after about 10 hours of rendering (tonemapping) ... Followed the suggestions for the exporter and the renderer... Sigh not the best one but I guess this would be consider a work in progress... Used ODF skin and what LaurieA suggested for the map in the eporter... Still I guess pratice makes perfect, eh?

The trick to getting a good render in Luxrender is to just let it render lots of samples. Yes, it does take quite awhile ;).

And, it may just be personal preference, but I'd avoid any filters or image effects. Whatever you did to your image is sucking out all the detail. Feel free to experiment with the camera response files tho. They really add to the render ;).

Laurie