johannes

It's because you don't have enough RAM. You'll never have enough RAM.

apology accepted, we understand.

A lot depends on taste. I like to fiddle with photos so here goes: * more contrast * vignette * change the green of the grass a little bit * mist on the grass * little bloom * little dirt * sharpening These are all basic photoshop tasks. Try it yourself and see what happens. This guy has many good tips: http://www.alexhogrefe.com/ Hope it helped...

http://lifehacker.com/5426041/understanding-the-windows-pagefile-and-why-you-shouldnt-disable-it

Using a big page file might help.

How about some Depth of Field?

Inspiration comes from doing.

I couldn't get it to work so I used the vray FUR option. It's well explained in Scott's link at viscorbel.

I've settled with VRAY fur for now which works ok. Thanks again.

Thanks Scott, it sounds like you are right. But then again, i never have enough memory

I'm having the same problem. I believe it's a problem with some geometry in the scene. I tried a blank scene and no problem. Also, different render settings seem not to help.

I don't understand this. So someone likes 'his' work and gives him a job... then what? He obviously can not do this himself... questions questions.

I've played only a little bit with this plugin yet but I think it deserves a lot more love. The tree sharing site is just waiting to become popular if you ask me...

It's C house by Robert Maschke: http://www.robertmaschke.com/robertmaschke.com/Pages/projects.htm I found it by dragging the picture to google images.

This might be helpful? http://www.theresidentarchitect.com/2010/02/3ds-max-tutorials-17-setting-up-a-background-image.html#axzz2BKhlHirb