Thanks.

I started with attached as my rough idea, and this render didn't finish. i marqueed in increments but it refused to render tothe end.

original idea was to show sunlight making light stripes across the bottom of the bed and his legs - from the blinds. didn't get as far as playing with shadows and negative shadows.  my 1st render is usually just all the elements i'm planning to use and make sure nothing borks on 'missing' and what-nots.

scene contained basically - at the start : http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/hrd-simon-for-m4/83162
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/chains-ropes-dressing-metalic-v4-2-elite-aiko4-/86276
front wall and floor, blinds  http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/modern-bedroom/80215
bed:   http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/round-bedroom/89428
the snakey thing is Medusa V4.
M4's Displacement maps
Feathered male hair

 

after a weekend of fail,
since then i've removed the She Demon from the scene.  Which was sad, cuz i bought the chain outfit just for this scene. and not nearly as sexeh without a She Demon Domme.

deleted most of the reflect related nodes.

beside the tifs. i traded all the highlight,math nodes from Simon skin, with the Wacro for SSS.  i didn't do SSS wacro on eyes, finger nails, inner mouth.

started with the light set from greenpot's exotic bathroom.  my 1st instinct after the render fail was to reduce light complexities, tried -one point light, one plain IBL light -no image map - at 40%. 

3 raytrace bounces. 2 pixel sample. irradiance set to 100%.  no gamma stuff. pixel bucket first at 32, then 16, 4, 2.  didn't bother trying 1 pixel. shading rate = 0, sinc

when i try it with sss ticked on, it calculates and shows the grey, but then it just stops.  render progress bar closes. can almost hear it say 'voila'.

yesterday's test render with Render Q, showed 60% and running, many hours later i checked task manager.  cpu was at 10% and there were no ffrender.exes running.

 

but, i don't really want to go through this trouble for every big render.  i want to be able to set up the scenes, run the Render Q, go to sleep, wake up in the morning, and dazzling completed renders would be waiting to greet me with a cheery 'good morning'.  that was the dream when i bought the pp12.

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