The person swimming is getting burned by the light. Humans don't need that much light to see at night. I know you have the lights turned way up so that we can see them from our location. We are too far away to notice if light is reflected or refracted from anything, so those settings can be turned down some. That smoke is probably killing your CPU, too. Bryce uses your video card's GPU when you are scrolling around a scene and Bryce needs to do a quick re-render of your objects (with shading and textures, etc). But when you hit that render button, your video card pretty much goes dormant. Bryce is now talking to your CPU to figure out the color and brightness of each pixel it's setting on the bitmap. The faster your CPU, the faster the render gets done. If your hard drive is grinding away while you're rendering to the screen, all bets are off. You don't have enough RAM on your motherboard. This will keep your CPU grounded during the flight. Awesome image so far, though. SHONNER http://www.shonner.com

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