This image was a bit of a challenge. I wanted to show troops all lined up to board their transports. The obvious answer would be to do it in Vue, but I just got it and I can't easily import my Bryce models without the texture going to hell (or the model going to hell because it's too complex). So I improvised. There are 720 little (very little) suited marines in this scene. Since a single Major Cache figure (what've been using as the basis for the Martian Marines) is about 50MB in size after I strip out most of the textures and the underlining figure, I knew that wasn't going to work. Instead I took the simple manikin figure in Daz/Studio and made it stand up straight, shorted the head and widened the shoulders. Then I imported it into Bryce, added a cylinder for a face plate and a cylinder and a square to make a backpack. That makes one soldier. Next I grouped them into a squad, then a platoon, then a company and finally a battalion. The battalion file was 185 megabytes, and I was sure Bryce would puke if I made it bigger. But for this image, I set up the tarmac scene, with the elevators and hangers, merged it with the tower scene from my last image, then merged in my ship models. That was only about 34 megabytes. I merged in my battalion of manikin marines - they're the little figures in front of the big ship- added three to the front as a reviewing team, then copied off a company and put them in front of the other ship to the right. 11.5 million polygons, but still working. First time I tried to save it, Bryce ran out of memory - I have 4GB RAM on a 32-bit version of Vista, so there's not much I can do, physically. On my second attempt, I closed out all other programs, turned off Areo and ran it again, figuring I could at least save off the image, even if the file was too big. But my stripped down OS handled it this time . The file is 262MB, but I think the total number of objects or polygons is what ran me out of memory the first time. If I want to put in a bigger army, I'm going to have to learn Vue. Or see if Bryce 7 ever comes out. Anyway, thanks for viewing. Here's a very short story: --- We got the usual notice: a half hour to pack up all our gear and drop it with the loaders. Then we suited up and rode elevators to the surface. It was morning on Mercury. Only about 350K outside, but my visor went nearly black from the glare. No reason why we couldn't have boarded our ships down in the hangers, but Brigadier Remek-Ombuto wanted to review the troops. That's her right, and we're Marines; we don't question, we just obey. We don't even know where we're going, but they'll tell us when we get there. -- Sergeant Valari Chung, Beta Company, First Battalion, Third Cohort, Blue Brigade Combat Team.