frogdot opened this issue on Jan 15, 2010 · 196 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Mon, 25 January 2010 at 8:12 AM
Quote - I've noticed a distinct increase in the quality of the render as well as noticable speed increase....no image yet as I'm still in torture testing but soon, it seens to use similar instancing to Vue because IIRC Vue will show amizong increse in poys in a scene with a population added indicating they aren't true instances...I think Terragen2 uses true instancing because I've never locked it up and have had 15 000 000 grass plants at once with 3 cloud layers which with a lot of polys, will lock the girl right up.. ...
Increase in quality? I must go back and re-examine that old render then, as that had some odd glitches, might need to increase the rays or something.
"amizong increse"? What have you been drinking man? Lol.
Cloud layers.... mmmmmm! Drifts off into Cloud Cookoo Land....
By the way Bobby, what do you mean by Bryce native stuff? Do you mean just primatives and trees? or .obp?
Cos the Alien Bug was an .obp but the little boxes were .obj imports and it seemed to manage the boxes a lot better than the bugs, which is perfectly understandable if you're thinking in terms of polys, as the bugs will be huge in polys but the boxes are just boxes, not quite 6 polys each as the edges are smoothed, but still pretty low in comparison.
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