melikia opened this issue on Apr 04, 2008 · 24 posts
melikia posted Sat, 05 April 2008 at 2:46 AM
wll, we're up to about 22 hours now LOL.... 80% complete... and its STILL saying around 5 and a half hours - i wouldnt mind so much if it would quite lying to me. i had one render i did that took about 2 weeks... total render time was almost 36 hours. cant remember what atmosphere i had, but i had a lot of water and a semi-transparent dress with a very pearly finish to it - THATS what took most of the time.
and you're half-right, MyCat (btw, your avatar looks like my midnight-kitty - with a little less fluff LOL)... radiosity sets us apart - as does the ability to RESUME a render. =D (interior pak thread????)
one thing i wish vue had - is the ability to compare renders like poser has.
Stormchaser (do you really chase storms? if so - that's coool =D ).... the choice to upgrade was made about the same time i purchased/installed vue... within minutes, i decided it was the niftiest program i'd laid my hands on yet. within hours, i was producing some pretty neat effect - a few days later, people were requesting me to make scenery images for them (family LOL)... its been one of the easiest and most satisfying programs to teach myself how to use (with lots of help from the forum here grins). poser gave me NIGHTMARES for months (and still gives me terrible fits now and then.... ).... and you're right... so far, what i see of the radiosity in this image - its beautiful =D ive never even come close to this with poser - and not for lack of trying LOL.
i no longer like rendering in poser. i dont like the way it handles lights (although the "point at" button is handy) - there's other things, but the litany of negatives have been played out many many times before - why repeat it? grins
Today, i found one of those wacom bamboo fun graphics tablets at fred meyers for $100 - my mom-in-law gave me hell over christmas because i hadn't told her what i wanted (i ended up with a 5$ mini food chopper and instructions to find something i wanted and tell her LOL).... so, i told her today THIS is what i want - and it can be my pressie for the next 20 christmases if she wants LOL....so, hopefully in the next few days, i'll have a graphics tablet. =D
anyway... i'm gonna pause the render & save it so i can play for a little bit before bed, then set her back up to finish the danged job - maybe it'll be done tomorrow. i hope so, cus this is insane LOL. i cant move vue to the proper directory until im sure this is finished (i dont want any issues)
pads away, singing off-key to a tune she makes up on the spot lalalalala.... spring is in the air..... slow down and pause to stare.... radiosity's everywhere.... it even glistens in my hair.... lalalalala..................................
Rarer than a hairy egg and madder than a box of frogs....
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