SpinLand--glad you mentioned that. I have the same issue. :( I personally am not offended by nudity...but cannot even go near the gallery at work because even the thumbnails are not safe. It would be nice to be able to browse the gallery at work on lunch, but it's not possible because of the thumbnails. Nevanna

If there's no RAM available, it typically will just give you a black screen and lots of beeps. ;) Glad it's working for you, though. Nevanna

Madmax wins! :D It turned out to be soft shadows in the skylab. Which is kind of funny, since I have the sun turned off... Turned that thing off, and poof it rendered in just a few hours. :p

@ICM Didn't know grouping could affects things. Yikes, I do that a lot. :p

Thanks for the help! I want to do some more tweaks before I u/l it. :)

Nevanna

Quality is set to super, rays per pixel 16, no premium effects, TIR is turned on. I'm rendering to disk at 970 x 727--I wanted to do even bigger, actually. The materials are mostly custom...I removed the glass from the windows, couldn't see it anyway. Several are just tweaked presets. The wallpaper is a picture with bump map applied, the curtains do have a really high transparency; I got rid of the transparency on the table cloth. Picture for a background on the clock, with a basic glass mat for the cover. Turned off the sun, so the only light is from my strip of spriraled spheres in the middle. Not sure what else to add. Thanks for your time, though. :) Nevanna

I've never had problems exporting from Rhino to Bryce...and I've exported some good-sized stuff. Always used .obj format. Maybe shrink it in Rhino first? Oh...try grouping the whole thing in Rhino first before export... Hope it helps. :) Nevanna

Any sort of popular voting is going to pander to the median, not the exceptional. You can see it with everything else--stupid songs on the radio, bad movies, books... Just ignore it, and it will have less power over you. ;) And BTW, I actually kind of liked your "Without a Care". It had some interesting mats. Nevanna

Does your machine set to look at the CD-ROM on bootup? If not, it didn't even look at the CD drive. You can change that in the bios. Let me know if you need a more detailed explaination of how to do that. :) Nevanna

Ang--let me make sure I understand. :) Is the RAM new, and your motherboard older? Say, more than a couple of years? In the last couple of years, manufactures changed how the RAM is built...sometimes new RAM won't work on older boards. Nevanna

Wait, it just keeps rebooting? Screen goes black and it restarts automatically? That's sounds like RAM to me. Do you have more than one chip in there? You could test them, one at a time, to see what's gone bad. Nevanna

It never should have been built that way in the first place....bad code design.

Why is the session information stored in the URL anyway, instead of in a session object behind the scenes? Nevanna

Yes, you can use WEP with DHCP. The IP addresses should be assigned via your router. Is your SSID being broadcast, or no? First off, is the computer you want to connect wirelessly with picking up the signal from the router? Nevanna

Backwards?? lol!! What world do you guys live in?? And erm, no, not almost everything...

Well, if you ever have any Java questions... :) I work as a developer. Nevanna

WinXP SP2 is full of security holes, more than it fixes... Try using: Spybot Search and Destroy Avast (Personal Edition) Adaware Oh...and Firefox lets less junk through the IE. ;) Nevanna