Congratulations !

Never seen so an amazing config !

(except Mec4D's [see her on YouTube] and her 4x Nvidia TitanX monster). Best wishes.

Personally I rotate only on a single plane. Using a Möbius-Strip for cameras is much too hard for me. Usually I use a simple hidden plane, attach the camera to it, then rotate it.

Malus: Some cheaters I know, use to rotate the ligts-rim and the cameras-ring in opposition. They tell saving 50% of frames count for time-lapse effect!

Everything is right now, thanks for your efficient support.

Hello,
I tried this morning, but apparently the reset didn't work, the item is still over the limit.
Please reconsider, thanks.
LocusSolus.
Thuesday april 6th 2010.
 

Thanks a lot! Happy eastern, friendly, LS.

Thanks Kristi,and compliments for your luminous look! :) LocusSolus.

Hello, Stacey,
Thanks to you I could download Shana's beautifull  fashion designs,  to you (not bloody) kisses from France, LocusSolus. 

YES! I hope this genial idea will change the store and increase the sales.

Thanks for the info, nocontrol, despite I havn't personally the required level to follow this course profitabily, I was interested to see that renderman comes to a larger public. freiendly, Locussolus.

Quote -  I've messed around with multiple distant lights and some spot lights, and intensity, and color...Still looks like something is missing.

Looks like, on contrary, that there are too many things: HDRI works well as a single light system. Sorry, I've no time just now to get tutorial links around here (there are lots!) , but I shall try to come back with. I was like you a month ago, and I can tell you in advance that it''s a famous trip.
Immediate tuto:

1. remove all lights and get back to default D|S zero light. 
2. To use HDRI, you need a Light shader plugin: Go to DAZ and buy some: My prefered is PENDRAGON, or OMNIFREAKER also. Just go to Daz, type HDRI in the search field, click GO, and have a look at the result. Read attentively all items. For first timers, that allways more instructive than trying to follow a tutorial whatever it is. Also on the Daz topic read the up-to-date hot Pendragon forum. 
3. Install your plugin (Pendragon has an excellent user manual)  and enjoy, there you are.
   After a little skill with using your baby, you'll feel the need to get some HDRI additional pictures for various effects. You'll find already mid-day HDR libraries, night HDR libraries, sunset, hot, pale, and so on, but that's for later. 

Some additional points:
-prepare yourself to spend rendering duration times multipied by ten (at least).
-IBL-HDRI lighting works fine with externals, less easily with interiors, and could be really decieving for portraits if managed by clumsy beginners. 
-never try to produce your own HDRI-s, tools for doing that exist, but are not still friendly enough. But they are coming soon, just wait for some weeks for that.
Friendly, locusSolus. 
 

Thanks a lot, Debbie, having let Victoria to open so quickly her gift of new shoes. As you know, elegance can't never wait...Friendly, LocusSolus 

Hello L&G, sorry for "walking in the soup dishes" (a french expression I'm unable to translate, but i'm sure you will understand) just to say INCOGNITAS, I love you render, its so lovely crafted and ligthened with so nice softness and poetry that I can't imagine you feel somewhere wrong with the AIKO figure, who is an absolute must in the 3D world. I store your picture in my "watch just before sleeping" directory. friendly, LocusSolus.

Quote - Well i have a quad core intel extreme PC, and it just smokes- but running XP64 pro i find P7 to be VERY unstable- it crashes totally at random after deciding that whatever PZ3/cr2 im working on is unacceptable- then after a few days it forgets the taboo on that particular figure and i can use it again.

since this does not happen on my laptop with P7 and XP32 i can only assume it is the OS.  it's driving me friggin crazy

After 3 days of dicuss with some vendors and friends on a french forum, I heard exactly the same song. They all come to vista 64 in dual boot. Asking for the best config I could find for my limited means of money, we made a little test (not a real bench): A nice cat with very hairy coat under Lightwave:

• Intel QX9650 + 4Gb +W32 + 8800 ULTRA (the two tops in perf today):  quite 4 hours render (thats very fast) cost is here: 3500€. 
• for the same price: 2x (Intel Q6600+8G+V64+ 8800 simple) Ethernet nested: 1 and half hour render! cost: 2x1550€. 
  I think Lightwave "maps" the 16Gb (2x8) memory, I'm going to ask confirmation to some LW9 user, that I'm not. 
  We have just to wait from Sirs developpers they implement 64bytes on their dear products, but you should ask from MSDN if they have a roadmap for XP64.
  I am like everybody, I walk in darkness. Friendly, LocuSolus.
    

Martial: Thanks for this very interssant link, undestandable by a non english speaker, which is unusual in the "hardware worls". As a beginner in 3D I came here to get some help with software turmoils, but never could imagine that I could kept safe from hours of forthcoming hair pulling when changing my old PC within few weeks. Friendly, LocusSolus.

Sorry, Ladies and Gentlemen, it's me again, I have read this topic twice from the beginning to the end, and found that very interesting and instructive. but,

1. I think a good summary could be found in the new banner of the DAZ|studio forum here above. 

2) the only one Character I have bought for this moment at DAZ is aelwen's Vanessa for V4, a very nice character, who came in a bundle containing, sold together, Vanessa + Vanessa dress. And I was surprised to see that the caracter's installers put files (figure, morphs, textures...) in a certain directories, and the dress from the same bundle installed its own morphs, mats, props, textures in directories completely different. I think it's willingfull, there could not be another explanation. As you have perhaps noticed, there is quite no new vendors/products remaining at DAZ. It seems they have all shifted elsewhere.

1. As I explained in a very long post (which I cant retrace, I'm not still easy with navigation in this gigantic forum) I have opted to a radical solution to this problem, (a Gordian-knot solution) which is to install only the stuff I need for my scene. This idea came to me while watching a 30 minutes long video  tutorial where I notice that 80% of the tutorial duration ones see the tutor navigating along kilometric directories to pick some stuff he needed and 20% of duration only to work really. Guess he makes the same thing when he works in the real, so you can get an idea of his productivity. 
   So I spent not few times to organize with accuracy, not my files, but my installers, managed in comprehensive directories, each product with the .mht (IE7 save file of DAZ-site page) the .jpgs (images samples), and the .EXE (installer). 
   considering that a DAZ installer runs within 10 seconds, I install in few minutes all the stuff I need on a cleaned (5Gb) disk-partition (H:), regardless of any kind of subdir, all with NO uninstall, and clean all D|S other preferences-lookup. H:, only H: always H:. , the stuff, the scene, and the renders. Once my scene is finished, I backup this entire partition on a cd and format it. (quickformat, less than 1 minute). So I have no longer any problem, an no longer any contact with this directory hell. That is not THE solution, but that is a solution. If you think that it is stupid, don't hesitate to tell it, I'm a beginner, so I can hear strong thinks without grimacing.

I just wanted to thank you, and to say at last: when you have no longer problem somewhere, just make a step forward, and soon you will get back your dear worries. For me these have the name of CARRARA.
Friendly, LocusSolus.