The one instability that's driving me absolutely buggy is the "Shift-Click-Drag" crash that's happening to me about once an hour if I forget about it.  It's a strange hiccup that also happens when using the eyedropper.  Sigh... I hate using the "A" menu to move objects.

Thanks for the info on this Rashad.  This is very useful to know, and I will be keeping it in mind.  I'm going to try once again at a scene that I wanted to do but couldn't do to lack of skill, memory and computing power.  It seems simple, but I've never done anything quite like it.

As for the road, well, let's say I like to work on a grand scale and have no temperment or skill at painting terrain at this time.  Most of mine consist of creating simple terrains then creating many dupes that I modify to get what I'm looking for.  The idea I have is similar to this, but doing it in gravel and heavy woods, similar to what is below:

I've seen the other terrain road videos and tuts.  I've used it once or twice with mild success.  Of course my texturing skills aren't good as I've not figured out how to paint them worth a darn, even something like a road or door.

Well, time to figure out more workarounds and familiarization.  See if I can pull off that scene I wanted.

Large Address Aware Flagging???  never heard of it.  If it can increase performance out of my 2.6ghz machine and use more of my 6gb or RAM I'd be happy to learn about it.

I went through your gallery Rashad, and I have to say I'm very impressed.  I started experimenting with the instance lab, and see some things I want to do, but manage to crash the program if I do more than 300 instances or so with trees and it significantly slows response time to doing camera changes or moving objects in it.

I have a few scenes in mind I REALLY want to do, but discovered I have a severe lack of modelling and textural skills in which to pull it off.  And they should be simple, but honestly, to do them right, is taking a long time to figure out how. 

My latest challenge is how to create a realistic country highway that goes over hills and valleys so you see it in part.  An idea came to mind, but I'm not convinced yet how to do that.

Thanks for the help Rashad.  I'll be checking all this out.

I don't know if it's the textures because so far I've been sticking to many preset ones with little modification.  It's been a long time since I've used V5, maybe I just wasn't doing things too often that caused it to act up back in the day.

Thanks for the info guys.

Now it's up to learn about instancing and how not to crash it, plus deal with power consuming lighting methods.  Even with a new computer with much bigger CPU and more memory than I've ever had before, I still bog this stuff down fast.  There are a few pieces I want to do, but have to build up my skill and understanding of this software before I attempt it.

I've tried to use Instancing, but I must not get it, or am doing something wrong because it crashes my system every time so far.  And God help me if I try to use "Multi-Replicate".  Is there a patch out there I should be aware of?

Quote - Must be an entirely different group of Brycers nowadays.  In years past a discussion as this would have been pages long.  

I seem to remember the same.  I can finally get back into this stuff now that I've upgraded my hardware and participate again.  Then again, this forum used to be a much more active place, but everything has it's season I guess.

Quote - Bobby? They did that already - it was renamed 'Bladerunner'.

Yep.  And after reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" I concluded the movie is a rare instance of being better than the book.

Saw the preview of "Ender's Game".  Ummm wow?  So many oscar nominees and a winner or two for one... and it does look stellar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SRizeR4MmU

A few books I'd be interested in seeing on the big screen:

the "Sten" Series by Chris Bunch and Alan Cole

The "War Against the Chtorr" series by David Gerrold

"Bio of a Space Tyrannt" by Piers Anthony

and of course "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber.  (face it, the whole Honor Harrington Series, IMHO for at least the first 8 books is pretty good for cinema.

Yep.  I learned the lesson the hard way to set my scene up for the Camera View (and don't forget the 'save dots in the upper left next to the preview, which will allow for you to return the camera and director view to certain positions.  Use the director view to set up the scene, then when you're ready and the models are in place as you think you want them, in the director view, go to the camera view and choose 'camera to director' then save it in place there.  Then whenever you need to see something from a different view, go to director and inspect with that.

Oh, and don't forget, to minimize file size and memory waste, delete anything non essential to what you can see in camera view.

Wish I could say they're mine.  Found em on google's model search, converted them to obj's from .dae files in Blender.

Okay, I tried it again.  It says the WIP "Ore Docks Loading" is here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2306585

It's 99% laid out, now for texturing and lighting.

LOL dyret.  No I was away for a while.

WIP, work in progress. 

The image was called "Ore Docks Loading"  It was under 100k.

Thanks for the help.  I didn't think anything had changed since 2006.

Quote - OMG !!!!!

Agent Smith??? Here??? WTFrack have you been, Kirk??????

SQUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! Ole faces I remember.

Although I may be too late, you could try this trick, I did it once once on my Winter Cemetery pic.

Make two copies of the tree in question, give one a snow texture, shrink it's dimensions by 1% or so and raise it up out of the other tree so it's just peeking out of the top.  It makes the needles look frosted (or get rid of the leaves and just do it on the branches if you can) to make the branches look coated in a little snow.

Just a thought

I crash on the following.

-Every use of the Instance Lab crashes my system within seconds of trying to manipulate the different instances. 

-Use of the spray render about 50% of the time, or at least locking up the program forcing me to close out and re-enter.

-The Tree Lab if I change certain functions.

So, I'm crashing about every 15 minutes or less.

Then again, I have very low ram on my system (256mb).  Was fine for Bryce 5, but Bryce 7 kills it like a plate in a shooting gallery.

So far, I'm very disappointed.  I can't get a single scene done because it crashes before I can save it.