i don’t really like the material on the crown. it is a little ugly.
a agree, the 2.32 raytracer is much faster than previous releases. i am working on my submition for the wc, and it is rendering fairly fast.
JoOngle: Thanks 
Jay Eff: I might change it.
RobertT
That’s some nice jewelry, hopefully i will have time to make a good setting too, but check it out broham, after several hours of tweaking, I have caustics,… :Z
This is looking very nice Robertt. Excellent designs.
BgDM
Thank you very much, Modron and BgDM!
Here’s a closeup of the bracelet:
These are all procedural textures. The bracelet has several materials. For the center part of the band there’s a marble and cloud texture providing nor, which helps it look (at a distance) like there’s some kind of design there, or at least an interesting variation to the reflective gold texture.
I posted the final render in the Finished Projects section. I hope everyone likes it. It took much longer than I had anticipated, so I hope the results were worth the wait
Take care everyone.
RobertT