Here's an image I built to do a simple test of the new GI engine. 1.) It's a lot easier to set it so that you can get good results. 2.) The skylight controls are pretty spiff. The top image was rendered at 1280X1024 with the settings up pretty high (none all the way though). The render took five hours. The floor texture has an extreme bump in it and that challenged the render time significantly. The bottom image is a raytraced flavor with the ambient light turned up to get a similar kind of lighting level. It's clear how much better the GI image is. -Kix

-Kix