What is your video and system memory? Sounds like some kind of page fault. Certain lighting will call for much larger memory stacks than others. I agree with Morrigan, going over the video settings may help a lot. Reducing number of passes per light, bucket size, and ray trace depth, can reduce the number of calculations the program has to do and therefore reduce processor and memory usage.

Thanks for the info.

Do these work well for marketing outside of Renderosity?

Does anybody want to go to the admins and make this official? I don't have the anything put together on this yet. Just thought I's get the idea out to you guys to see what you thought.

ROFL LMAO!!!!!!!!! OH YEAH! She's (?) tough enough! (could have problems in the steroids testing department) LOL! If we had men in Roller Derby it just wouldn't be Roller Derby. But....The was a couple of movies in a similar vein called "Rollerball." I think we can work that variation in. I want you people to think a cross of WWF and Hockey. Only we are talking RollerBabes. Beautiful. (except for the ugly one) Tough as nails. We're talking top speed around the roller skate rink with elbows and fists flying. We're talking moves like the Slingshot and the Clothesline. Bodychecks and takedowns. And yet they are sexy enough to stop an entire bar in thier tracks when they walk in. This is an "entertainment" sport that once had the popularity of Big Time Wrestling. (now know as the WWF) I want to see more like Hilda there. :)

Well, folks....I would like to announce that we now have an official go for a contest! :) But....with Siggraph coming up, it won't be until mid-August that the ball starts rolling. I want to thank you all for your patience and for your willingness to participate in this. I will keep you posted as this moves along.

You will find out shortly. :)

All right folks, please be patient for just a short while longer. Final details are being worked out right now and shortly this will go up as a contest.

Will do. Check over in my post in the Art Theory forum. Several artists have offered to contribute work.

Well, I would like you to know that Black Rain has agreed to be a part of this project. I would like all of you to go out and look at his work and come back with suggestions on which image you would like to work with. Second, I would like you to visit digitell's gallery and look over her work. Thirdly, I would like you to think of artists her at Renderosity whose work you think would lend to this and invite them to join this project. We will then move forward at first with SirJohns idea of a running story to one image. Actually I would like to see two or three images being worked with. I think this could be the basis for something monthly.

A bit of a clarification. This idea to me is an experiment in communications. There are images out there in the galleries that, "tell a story," to me. Or some just hint at a story. I find I want to know more when I see an image like that. Now the artist has already visually communicated something to us. But what if we add that something "more." It's like going at the "illustration" concept backwards. The image inspires what is written instead of what is written inspiring the image. I feel this would give many artists a better feel for the "illustration" value of their work. I would give writers a unique source of inspiration and practice in "writing to subject." Over all, I would like to see some sort of book come out of this. I know there is the talent in Renderosity to do a major collaborative, illustrated work.

This is an idea that SirJohn sent me. what does everyone think? Instant Message from SirJohn: What I was thinking was for an image to be hand picked... any image in the galleries (with the exception of the bland and boring naked Vicki/front and center ilk), from any artist. The image that we decide upon we would post the link to and all of the participants would leave their short story as a comment on the artists image. Maybe somebody (or somebodies) could look through some images and post links to five or six and the participants (writers) could vote in the forum on which image to use. It could be a weekly or even a monthly activity. What do you think of that idea?

I really hope so. :)

ok, maybe not.