Hey folks, I was planning on writing a tutorial on a new method of radiosity that I came up with, but after writing the tut I went and did another scene using that method and the method fell flat on its butt. The problem is that there is another problem that does not make sense. The technic I was using was doing everything great, Radiosity, HDR reflections, faster rendering, when all of a sudden I noticed a potential flaw. If you look at the pic you'll notic how bright the roof is. Now, someone tell me WTF that is? I have a scene with a white globe (size doesnt matter) surrounding the scene. I have 5 spotlights shining up onto the white globe. These spotlights are above the room, not visable through the window. There is no lights in the room what so ever, the atomsphere is completely off. There is no reason why the ceiling should be so much brighter than the floor like that. I thought well maybe the light is bouncing off the ground plane outside the room. I removed the ground plane completely. No effect. I tried 20 different set-ups, different rooms, different lighting. It didn't matter. Same problem every time. I'm at my wits end because sound principles and attempts do not apply to this software. I don't like playing a guessing game everytime I make a scene. Once I learn how somethign should work, it should work that way,not change on you. I don't mean to be a know-it-all or anything, but to me that is a bug. Unless I can be given a logical explanation for the light to act so goofy then I will remain to feel that way. Bryce is a good program if you can accept it's limitations. I guess I can not. I'm going to take a break from Bryce and see what else is out there for what I want to achieve. As it stands right now Bryce can't do that. Maybe Corel can get it's act together and bump Bryce up to some of the other packages out there. I hope so. I like Bryce's GUI, its work flow and the idea behind it. But I guess the extremely slow render engine, the quirky lighting model and the terrain engine just don;t do it for me. I feel I have made a few friends here the short time I was here, and I hate to leave, but when a piece of software is making you pull your hair out over stuff then it's time to move on. I wish you folks the best of luck and hope to be swayed to come back some day :)