Thanks Jc,
I was actually praciting on some of the geek at play tutorials from where I got this idea. I have played around with the materials for the ice bergs but for some reason it tseems the picture looks too grainy (perhaps because of a lot of light)

1. Is there a way I can reduce the sunslight or intensity rather than the oritentiation so that the picture looks a bit softer.

2. I was trying to introduce fog and was playing around with altitute and cover. Is it possible to add two sets of clouds one at the higher level and one at the lever level to increase a fog like affect.

3. finally in terms of the scale, is it better to make objects bigger but placed further down the camera or is it better to have objects smaller and closer to the cam to give the realisum affect.

4. Are there websitre where I can pick up some free vue atmopheres that are good to enorporate in a senece like this.....

5. I was looking for free boat models but couldnt find any for vue online, if someone can guide me to a good website.

I think as wisely mentioned in this fourm many a times, lightining and scale are quite imporatant elements of a scene.

Thanks

Rutra, I need a bit more help with resume rendering, the options is checked ticked under the tabs as you specified. however I am not certain on how the process works.

When I right click on the render tab, which shows all the options for rendering, there resume render button no the botton right hand corner is greyed out. I am not very sure on how to access and apply this resume rendering option.

For instance, I am rendering a secene, in the stand alone renderer, how do I stop rendering it (are there any keys) and then how do I restart rendering it from the same point. I am trying to understand the process.

Thanks for the help !

Thanks guys,
Offrench,
I have gone through your benchmarks they seem quite well done, I am impressed with the core duo exterme systems.....unfortnately considering my budget I guess for the time being I will have to tug along with my amd 64 x2 athalon

rutra,
yeah I concur with you on explanation about corruption, there is a possiblity that the drawing might be corrupt. In which case I would have to re-edit stuff.

I am also wondering now that you brought it up, and it looks feasible enough, are people who are running low on rendering requriments or with slower processors using the 'save rendering option' to any successs. Considering if a cpu was being over heated as a result of higher processing, I believe saving the renders shutting the pc off for a day and then re-rendering it from the last % complete would help a vue user to ultimately render any complex drawing without hardware upgrade but certainly at the expense of time. Is that logical to assume and have people done that in practice.

Thanks

Thanks guys, In response to the above answers

1. Regarding overheating, I usually monitor the core temps/.cpu temp and they seem to be in the 61-62 C range which I think is an acceptable range for the operating temps. Vue does not crash per se, its just that the whole system restarts.

2. I cannot seem to find the save render option, if there is such an option, so that I can resume my rendering from the last render % complete. That would help cause if the computer keeps crashing I can save and reload it from the last render %. But cannot seem to find or know how to go about doing it.

The funny thing is when the rendering reaches around 47 - 50% the computer decides to restart. If it were the temp, which are in the range above, the computer should restart at any given % complete.

regards

Thanks bruno, I am using vue xstrem I will try playing around with the atmophere. I was also wanting to change the material on the icebergs I did try the translucency option however it takes an ernoumous amount of computing power and often caused a computer hang up can I do more to make the iceberg material look more icy and real.

It seems I always have problems with preceptions or camera distances due to which the propotions end up feeling unrealistic can you help me out there in any way....

thanks again for the response.

Thanks bruno will give it a try and post the render on here

Hi Frank, 
Perhaps I could, though I want to model other things besides regular leaves, say paper bills (perhaps like a money tree) or something else. So how can I go about placing other objects besides leaves as leaves in a realistic fashion. 

thanks

Hi bruno, 
Its Vue 6 extreme....

I was wondering how do people end up adding text such as their name or website on the corner of a picture. I was playing around with the Vue text, but it seems to be 3D text and takes a lot of adjustment.

Is there any other simple program I can use to add a little note or txt on the picture ?

thanks

thanks for all the feedback.....

I will try to learn using the function editor with a new picture :)

Hi bruno,
I am trying to add bump to the water and apprently the effect does not seem to show up. Can you kindly suggest the steps required to add a proper bump (keeping the material same) its a greenish water material.

thanks

Here it the render, hopefully it attaches this time.