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Ok, here is my distressed furniture + PoserDOF render.

Furniture:
First of all, another shout out to BB for these shaders. Frankly, they are fucking fantastic. Just as I hoped above, the effect here is convincing for "damage" to the otherwise uncanny straightness and sharpness of the edges. Thanks for this library, BB.

Render:
It's remarkable what noHair, noSkin, noEyelashes, noTranslucentClothing, noSSS etc can do for render time!

At first I had this scene cranked all the way up to the highest settings, but due to the DOF toggled on, after 45 minutes only three small squares in the upper left had rendered. I turned it off and turned down some of the quality settings. This 600x800 render took just over 3 hours. (Corei5 8GIG) I am sure that if V were in view with strand hair, it would have taken overnight.

I made the depth of field too small; if I were to re-render I'd extend it about another 12-18 inches. More to the point, any serious work with DOF probably belongs in PS/AfterEffects etc where you can manipulate the DOF from a map.

Scene is a room with odd-angled walls/ceiling made from hi-res panels. Lit by  two emitters, one pointing at the ceiling, one elongated and warped into a complex curve by a magnet. There is a small spot on the goggles with raytrace shadows at 5.0.

No postwork.
If I had done some I'd have pushed brightness/contrast around a little.

This little composition is a salute to Amelia Earhart, the search for whose end has recommenced.

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