I am new to bryce so I have a couple of questions: As I rendered a pic,just after the first pass,bryce said that the render time should be about 3hours and 30 min.But as after rendering the whole picture it just rendered for just half an hour.Why so?Is it a bug?I have a cl banshee pci.Should it help to reduce rendering time?If I overclocke it will I reduce rendering time?Please answer me because I have only 32MB of ram and I am thinking of upgradin to 64MB or buying a new card.Which one should help with bryce?

Hi cukt 7, the Render-Time is only a Suggestion by Bryce.In my Case it's usually longer than Bryce says.Your Graphic Card has no Influence tho the Render-Time.The best thing you can do for reducing the render-Time is to get the fastest CPU with a powerfull-Floating-Point Unit you can afford. That's where the rendering happens. Getting more Ram isn't wrong neither.It's faster to read & write to Ram instead to your Hard-Disk. Hope it helps.

thank you.I have a celeron 466 overclocked @583MHz.Does it help?

Well cult 7, I call a K6-300 with 64MB RAM mine.Your's faster than my CPU. Bryce needs long to render, but I thnk it's Worth it. Most of my Images were rendered over Night while I was sleeping and the Day after. Some Ideas weren't finished, because I didn't want to wait half an Hour for a 300x225 prewiew Render.What Bryce slows down are Materials with transparency and refracion.Reflections arent that bad. And don't use tooooooooooo many Lights.I think you should watch Bryce while you are working with it to get a feeling on what slows your System down - I mean Materials, Light and number of Objects (Polygones).If Bryce uses your Hard Disk often, it's better to get more RAM.Hope that you get other point of Wiews fom other Users.So you know what'the right Thing for you.

The further down the list in the materials editor the greater the time to render the material. If you want to cut down on render time ask yourself if you really need transparancy and reflection. Also check the sky editor to see if volumetric light is on, this reaaaallllly slows things down.