ok... this is as good as this one is gonna get until I either get some more memory, or teach myself how to composite images in post, or both. File size was 130megs before I added the trees, plants and extra characters. I've only got 256 megs RAM, and every time I tried to save after adding anything further, Bryce crashed. So I rendered this final image before trying to save again (crash). Daz, John Malis for the 'human' characters, derjimi for the wall in the background, and the only credits I've got for the house is some named 'hehornecker'. All else is Bryce. Rope is multi-repped metaballs along a path. Some (but not very much) post-work in Painter.