You know ? great rendering times are extra : sometimes I use volumetrics and ultra rendering option just for the sake of doing something else rather than rotting in front of my computer, something useful you know like eating a real meal or seing friends...;))Good luck!

Don' take it wrong, I'm not sure I was clear, you need to try uncheck antialias ONLY for the materials ( in the mat editor )of the objects you need sharper.. if you do for the whole pict in the render options, the volumetrics will certainly be grainy ... good luck!

Yes I prefer it that way, try stretching the vol material in the X or Y axis it might give an sheet effect to the fog. Yon can try to uncheck antialising in the mat editors of the mats you don' want to loose details on... one of the drawbacks (with time consuming) of volumetrics is that it needs better quality processing thus blurring tiny details. Hope that helps. cheers Paul

Yes as said SAMS3D and wabe you do just that and then put some general thermal erosion on it (you terrain should at least be 512 x 512 ) Then maybe, you'll have to reduce the Z dimension of the terrain once imported in the scene...(I should have used the term 'elevation map' instead of Bumpmap pardon me ) Hope you manage cause I am impatient to see your pict.

my 'two cents' : maybe you can simply map the pict on an alpha plane, or even a box flattened on the x or y axis, might be easier to center the pict. cheers

Then this is the pict made with an inbuilt filter os PS (create the effect in a smaller pic then copy/paste the effect where you need it in a larger one...) you can paint some more noise where the waterfall hits the pond, even raise to brighter values, dots for water drops etc... good if it can be of any use.

You are NOT overeacting for sure !

I fell on your thread yesterday and cooked for you a little exemple of what can be obtained for the rings in the water. I simply loaded a bitmap in a terrain 512x512 applied clear water mat., inserted 'wavelet' in the bump function and a 0.8 blur in the reflection tab... I'm not good at all with Poser (for ex : never found out how to export hairstyles I always get a black cap !) so don't look at the lady ... If this idea interests you, maybe I can put the bump bitmap here on the forum for upload ?

Maybe you could fake the fog, using a sphere and a volumetric texture... see what I mean on the attached pict. cheers.

Seems like they heard you enax, cause now you can manually download Vue4pro.4.5 update build 266001 (full update)on e-on provided you registered to enter the restricted area of course. I just downloaded it : 17.2M for win, 18,4M for Mac.