I see by your system that you won't be spending the time I did trying to render this sort of image. Mine is a paltry i3 540 with 4 gig RAM running Windows HEd 64-bit, which is the best I could afford. And no, I'm not spending anything on here or elsewhere... saving up for more RAM. Unfortunately, AFAIK Vue 10 Studio (also the best I could afford) doesn't use the graphics card. Which Blender 2.63 does, when I use Cycles.

Just curious: would you be willing to post a screenshot of your render settings? I think I've been doing it wrong and getting:

...which really isn't all that usable in Poser and BB's sphere. I used settings that were suggested to me, but I must have misunderstood something.

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

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