Here's another bump for Paolo's vender stats..

A little tidbit that was a bit mysterious to me was the render speed on it.  Now, granted my computer and my wife's computer are both primarily gaming boxes so render speeds are a LOT slower than most of the other folks in here; but, this one was crazy slow to start with.  Had just the model, hair and dress in the scene; a soft box above and on the right side of the shot and a large mesh light to the left side as a fill.  The soft box had it's gain higher than the mesh to give the impression of the light coming from the left side of the picture(model's right side).  Had all this in the mandatory cube.  I started and let it render for about 20 minutes and it was only rendering at about 7k s/s.  I was like.. wow.. what is wrong here?  Looked over my materials and all was as should be.  So I went back into studio, made the cube invisible and went back and started the render again and it was rendering at 40k s/s.  So, my question is why would just removing that cube cause my render speed to multiply nearly seven times?

[Edit] Also.... this was my first attempt at using a deformer on anything in D|S.  I used a small one on the cleavage area of the dress to try to pull it off her chest and make a more natural looking.  I stopped deforming it where it's at in the scene because when I pulled the deformer out enough to make the area between her breasts nearly flat going across, it started pulling the dress out so much that it made her breasts look enormous rather than just their natural decent size.