Just messing around with Vicky in Poser while I wait for my OTHER image to render in Max (only 8 hours to go). Ahh...boredom :) I figured I'd post this here since its unworthy of the gallery. *sigh* When we finally get substantially faster computers to render complex scenes that take days to render with current machines we'll have 3D software that produces even MORE complex scenes... so I think its going to be a neverending cycle :(

Boy I really like this image. Can you email it to me, I would love to have this in our gallery? http://www.sams3d.com SC@sams3d.com Let me know....Sharen

8 hours? good lord...i tried to load my poser stuff into max and render because everyone says it looks better, but i can never get lighting to work...are you gonna post it when you're done?

InBlack, this is really fantastic and thanks, I am going to visit your gallery later tonight. Really nice pic. Sharen:-)

Yes veamon, I'll post it. Its just a hajime sorayama styled cyborg woman, and the chrome and water refractions are taking forever for mental ray to render. I rarely miss an opportunity to ridicule the inadequacy of the Poser rendering engine, but I have to admit that lately I've been considering that it only takes a minute or two to render a 3000x3000x300dpi complex image, complete with bumps/textures/transmaps/reflection maps, compared to hours in other programs. I realise thats because they are using raytracing renderers, radiosity, caustics, etc, but in the end it comes down to the fact that Poser renders what it was made to do, and it does it FAST. I cant complain. So I formally apologise to 'Poser' for mocking its rendering engine, which is probably the fastest (even though it lacks high-end features) of any 3D suite out there.

hehe...yeah, ive seen some great renders, apparently they are made lifelike just by messing with the lighting...

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=64052&Start=1&Sectionid=2&Form.Search=amixiam

Oh, and veamon -- I forgot to mention..."8 hours TO GO" :) Its been rendering for over 6 already. Hehe. The above link was rendered by a friend in Bryce (not Mental Ray or a complex raytracer). The .br4 (bryce file) is over 600MB in size and took him about 40 minutes just to open on a high-end machine. The rendering time was almost a day at a modest resolution. I feel so bad because I kept bugging him about making the trees in the treeline non-uniform, sporadic and not all on 90 degree angles to the earth, and it caused him to re-render it about 3-4 times :)

wow..what made that one take so long? the grass and trees? and a 14 hour render? shheeeeoot...i know a guy at school who had to leave his rendering in max 4 overnight.

I have had to go to bed and wait til morning for renders but I try hard not to make the images that way. Sometimes just one volumetric seems to do it. The image above is very cool. I really like the sweater over her body. it looks very natural...so do the panties... :)