////~ All work should be done using Blender only. I do my modeling in Rhino so I'm out.

Still no Blender Gallery?

3D applications are like women.<<< I go for the cheap ones like Blender. I can't afford to go out with a babe like Maya.

Thanks, same to you. I'm hoping Santa gives me some cash so I can buy the Blender Manual.(on topic)

I'm away from home and using a public library computer so I can't screen shot anything. 3 Lamps Lamp-Energy 10-white light rgb all 1.0-Dist 650 (about 12 feet away from wall) YafRay shadows and photons: Ray Shado---sample 16 (one light no shadows selected) radius 14 Yafray: deselect XLM exp 1.00 No GI

Give me six more months with Blender and I might know something about it.

The original image size was 1280x960 and I'd say it took one to two hours. I wasn't paying attention as I just started the render and went and did some other things. There are three lamps all set to the highest setting. For some reason YafRay needs more light .There is a setting for exposure and one for emitting power but I didn't want to figure these out for this, so I just added lights.

We're not ready for one yet. At least I'm not. All I have is WIPs.

Thanks, I wasn't having much luck with doing it from scratch.

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Thank you. I don't do keystrokes much. More of a mouse kind of guy but with your help I discovered the button that gets me the same place. I guess I misused the term shader.Should have been material.

I'm a newbie also, and I'm interested in getting somewhere with this program. So I'll throw my input here. Maybe I'm adding nothing new. Smoothing: If you select your mesh. By right clicking on it. Then press spacebar.Highlight Edit. Then highlight and select Enter Edit mode. Then spcebar then edit then vertices. then smooth. Then Exit Edit mode. Hope this helps (someone).