I think I used a bitmap created in photoshop with noise for the displacement, either on its own or combined with the texture that came with the model. I will try to find it....

Create an empty scene with the standard spectral atmosphere and do the HyperVue render again. It's quite likely that the computers will now render at approximately the same speed. If not, then there is a problem I can not explain.....

Some tiles are easy to render, some tiles take hours to render, all within the same scene. It just depends on what they are rendering!
The first tile might be some grass and plants (easy) while the next 3 tiles are water, with reflections, transparencies, bump and objects submerged in the water. That can take a while. In the mean time the first computer dashes past the hard bits and renders the rest of the scene, apparently in no time......

A bit like this?

http://www.charm3d.com/Charm3D/3D_Modeling/Pages/Birdy.html#2

This one I did using a displacement map.

 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1440278&member

Create an image with very small dots (noise in Photoshop) and use it as a displacement map.

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I vote for the second one..... ;-)

Wood used for this purpose is impregnated with a certain chemical (forgot the name) which makes it quite a bit darker than the first one. Than again the first texture is more "alive". Both look very well anyway!

I assume these tracks are not used anymore, because of the rust on top?

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The thing with importing objects into Vue is that they are triangulated at import, usually resulting in a double amount of polygons compared to the original.
I don't think you can switch it off! Bit silly....

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They even still have the announcement of the 2007 winners up on their front page. I thinks they are all asleep. Can someone make a call, please??

I do not hink rescaling is regarded as post work. Post work is more like changing colors and adjusting for render errors. So to conform to their ridiculous 500 kB it will be fine to rescale or compress to jpg.

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Psst...
Just between you and me, and I'll whisper now. Nobody can tell if you change the size of your picture, not even E-on! So go ahead and scale it all the way down to a mighty 500 kB. ;-)

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I forgot:

Give the leaf transparency a 25% flatten filter....

Use a combination of:

• Light balance a bit more to Ambient and compensate with Light intensity for the overall look
• Use a bit more Uniform light (from the bottom up) instead of From Sky (180 degrees sphere), plus crank up Artificial ambience a bit.
• Edit Leaf material, effects tab. more Ambient light, less Diffuse. Backlight 100% (default) a tiny bit of Luminosity

That should do it!

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Your problem might be related to the one I had and why I started this thread in the first place.

It turned out that some files needed to save the user settings in (like preferences, windows states, but probably also pointers to external runtimes) were in the wrong (backup) folder and not newly generated by Poser. The error message was something like "Can't write to harddisk or Can't create file".

What does your error message say??

Somehow I feel more, and more like a guinea pig.....!   ;-)

Gday to you too, mate!

There is no particular way to import two Poser animations into Vue, it should work the same as importing one animation. The only mistake I sometimes make is that I import an animation while I'm not on frame 1 of Vue's timeline. So the animation won't start until it reaches it's frame of Birth....;-)

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I don't want to scare you, but there might still be some buggies...... ;-)