Ugh...I've been waiting on a render now for a week and a half, and its not even done with the second to last pass. My guess is another week to go, so about 2 and 1/2 weeks total. At one point the estimate said 108 days lol...The image is of some trees with some volume lighting, via spotlight, streaming through,  Shadow Ambience and Soft Shadows both set at 100%, Rays Per Pixel set at only 4. Originally I was going to go for some DOF with the RPP at 256, but I think that would have taken a year to render.

What's LAME is that Bryce (I'm using Bryce5) has such amazing features such as volume lighting and volume world, but to use them you have to wait weeks for renders. And another thing that blows is that I can't turn my computer off or save the Bryce file, close Bryce, open the file and resume rendering cause the spotlight will mysteriously have a gel, thus ruining the render. I of course could put a spotlight in in postwork, but I hate postwork and really suck at it, I like to have a render be the complete project minus postwork enhancement and jpeg conversion. Anyway, I'm curious what the longest Bryce render has been...My longest before this one was about 5 days. Thanks for letting me vent!

The image is of the scaled-down render so far.

Doug