A long time ago  Ilobmirt suggested I play with a new render engine called cycles... For whatever reason I didn't do it right away...


...well I finally got around to playing with it, and the results are AWESOME! |D It handles much more realistically than Blender's internal engine, although sometimes the renders come out a bit grainy. The good news is I can just tell it to keep rendering until the end of time and it will continue to get smoother over time. C: Also, because I almost REFUSE to ever work with textures (I only use them in a few places. lol) it works out great because getting textures to show up in this engine can be a bit of a pain.

I like how this is looking, and I especially like how I can look at it in the viewports. ouo Happyface.

...will throw in scraps eventually. 8U

...and yes, that's Raiyou's MacBook Pro. ouo