Re Alpha Layer: understood, but it gives me this for every material in the library, as in the ones it shipped with too. If this doesn't interfere with the final result, it's fine by me, although exteremely annyoing :-) but this error only ever appeared after I installed the ecosystem and its painter. I posted this at Eon too...I then asks me whether I wish to use the current information  but it results again in the same message if I change it later as in the current AND the one I try to load, which tells me it is all accross the board and probably a glitch? Basically I always have an exclamation mark in the top right corner of my texture info and this for every single one.

I tried all render settings, from final to ultra and my own as in 300 DPI. The ultra settings smooth everything in such a way that it looses all definition, so I generally go with a lower setting. Here I went for final and it took 1 hour with a rainy day atmosphere....It looked better with the standard one but I thought the shadows were wrong, as in heather wouldn't cast the amount of shadow it did and so I changed the atmosphere and it got worse from there on....

The scene contained 1 procedural terrain, ecopainted heather, some rocks and a tree, as well as DAZ sheep imported from Poser. I have attached it. I used materails it shipped with or left them as they were.