Oh my word thats the guy who cuts my hair! Nice pic by the way.

Well Done Lobo!!!! Your prizes from me are being sent by first class airmail (thats carrier pigeon).

Hes bound to come now Randy, good one.

Are you ready? Looks like he is :p

Whats that then???

Same here Ronstuff, First time for me!!!! Dont forget to check out my M3 Bounty Post :-)

Hmmm, getting some really disturbing mental images now from this thread especially from Tirjasdyn....

LOL Ok, good point. Funny thing is I did think of that but my fingers just never got round to typeing out a proviso, D'oh! The Bounty is for the first pic in this post that has been legitamately bought from Daz on or after Sept 10th. But thanks Rawnrr for makeing this clear to all, those Glass nails don't just grow on trees y'know! Also forgot to mention earlier... Nice one Stormrage :-)

Oh wow! turned into a real bounty already!!!

Shazz great minds think alike :) See my post on M3 Bounty.

There you go Wish, told you there'd be help here :-)

Sorry, seemed to have cross-posted with Trekkie ;-) always a pleasure. The reason to question the OS is cos Win98 has bad memory managmenet with apps that use up a lot of memory. Again I'm only going by what I've read here at some stage.

Ok for a start what OS are you running. Personally I didn't have it as bad as you but I started off with 250meg on W2k and recently bought another 500. But I am only a hobbyist as it were. Also a mamnagement program like Ram Booster helps, there is a thread posted in the last 3 months about that. Another thing is that it all depends on what those tweaks you mentioned were, did you play about with the render settings at all?

Thats some good work Eric.

"It analyzes HDR images and generates the coordinates, color info, and intensity for a corresponding light dome. Useful if your application (i.e. Poser ) doesn't support HDRI directly" Now that is interesting, I got HDR Shop on a cover cd a few months back but didn't really delve into it cos I knew poser couldn't deal with the resulting files. I wasn't aware of the extra information. I'm pretty sure probelights are in 2.1. Ericofsd, thats definately getting there. I did an image (on my other comp, will post later) where I had V3 and all of the textures were imported as an image file connected to the probelight connected to alt difuse. which game me a self lit V3. When I next get time I'm going to play about with the suggestions that Stefan made, those look like some interesting settings. Perhaps a probelight could be attached to the environment? just a thought. I'm absolutly gagging to try HDR studio, I think thats what its called, its kinda a global illumination setup that can get various light colours and intensities from a 2d image. Again not real HDRI but reckon youd get some interesting results.