I'm not happy with DAZ right now...   Actually, I'm mightily cheesed off at them...  So I won't be beta testing their stuff for a while

Is this an animated render or just a still image.  If it's a still image select "One for all frames" under the irradiance map.  And if you don't need it, turn off skylight.  That's for outdoor scenes mostly.  Your indirect lighting settings themselves aren't all that cranked.  I almost always use the Improved edges and light through transparency settings.  I don't think I have yet to run into a situation that I needed to use Shadow Compatability mode for.  I usually don't use depth of field either.  I only have 8GB and I run all of the other settings at max.  I commonly use large texture maps.  But I very rarely hit this error now.  I do use C 8 Pro though, and it is a lot more stable.

Ahhhh, the goold old days.  I remember that error, and still very occaisonally encounter it.  It means you are out of RAM and the render could not continue.  A few things to try.

Change the render settings, especially the indirect lighting settings.  Don't try to mak them all out adjust them for a reasonable quality output.   Make sure you aren't using too large bitmaps for your textures.  Huge texture map images suck a ton of memory when rendering.  Look to make sure you don't have any very complex objects interposing at any point.  The system will use a huge amount of RAM if it needs to compute the composed geometry AND light interaction AND texture(s) for that sort of joining. 

Without actually being anle to look at the file and the settings myself, that's about the best I can come up with generally.  I hope it helps.

Rich

I do a lot of sstuff with glows like that.  My usual method is to put in the filament object with a bright but short distance3 aura and make it a very bright shade of what I want the color to be.  Bright yellow normally.  Next I either use a sphere or a custom spline object for the bulb itself.  The bulb has an aura as well.  A bit less intense than the filament.  Next I set up the shader for the object with a 97% transparency and color it to the desired color.  I add about 5 for the reflection value and I also add a small amount of refraction.  Usually using an index for common glass.  Lastly I add the main lightinng source itself.  I place a bulb light source in the exact place I have the filament in, inside the bulb object object.  I find it works very well for me.  I sometimes add a tiny amount of glow and a very small but intense light sphere to the bulb light, to make it look like the filament has that intense glow at it's center.  And make sure to turn on soft shadows for the light.  I find that this method makes it easier to set up proper shadows if the bulb is going to be inside some king of fixture.

Yeh.  The Atmosphere settings can do that.  Which is a royal pain in the backside sometimes when you want the backdrop to show with atmosphere in between.

The background is what is seen in reflections and is the image behind the camera.  The Backdrop is where you would insert an image to appear behind the scene, in front of the camera.

Well, time to reinstall the Java runtimes on my system then.  I don't know when the last time I updated it was... :)

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Hmmm.. I dunno.  My Flash player is probably hosed then.

Looks like it's going to be a nice site.  One thing though..  All the fancy menu effects are playing merry heck with my browser (Firefox 4.0).  Are they really necessary?

Thanks.  I found some great old warbird models there.

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Those are great.  I just need to find a couple of Jets from the Korean War and a Modern one.  Something like an F86 or F100, and maybe an FA18  or F22.

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I'll see what's there.  Thanks.

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Thanks for that info.  I haven't used the realistic sky for wuite a while so I didn't see that.

One thing I really wish they would put in is an easier way to see where the Sun and/or Moon are when you are positioning them.  Something like an auto center so you can center on the Sun or Moon in the atmosphere menu.

Thanks for the help.  I haven't had time to get on here as often as I would like lately.  I'll give it a try using that method.  Daz really should fix this one though.