And I have been looking around for render settings that are fast, but clean. I found a couple and adapted my settings from one of them (*I think by Lynn?). My question is, can I set it up as a default render setting? If so how do I do this. I know there must be a way.

Also, my poser renders are very fast. I did change my ATI card for an nVidia card it is not a fast card, but it is much better then my default card was. 4GBs ram and a good core duo processor. Hey it is what I have now. I included a SS of the render settings for you.

I have one complaint, and that is Cornucopia, and the fact that so much of my plant content is linked to them for purchase. Can these be removed? I will buy plants (*or other things) when I want to. I don't want the direct links in my software and the irritation of looking at something that is not available to me. In fact I really resent buying a product and having an auto-link to any website (*smacks of spamming to me) IMHO. So can I remove the "need purchased" items from the folder(s)? How do you tell it is a "need purchased" from a already owned in the folders? 

Lastly I did check the "never conect over the internet" feature.

That's it, average render size is 3000x2400 (*oh and what do I use to get a size I need?) Most are 3200x2400 o0 I know it must be one of the settings where the aspect ratio is, but I am not sure which one.

Thank you very much!
Hope everyone's Valentines Day rocked!
HugZ!
Ariana

You can save the render settings using the Save icon next to "User settings" render quality. But they cannot be made default. (because when you make a test render, you don't want to use these settings, but faster ones). As for the Corn items, you should have a corn icon at the bottom of your collections. Long click it, and if you have a "ghost" icon, choose it, it will permentently hide the Corn items. If you don't have this icon, look for all the files that start with a double tilde ~~ in your Vue content folder, and delete them.

You COULD probably overwrite e.g the preview render preset with a custom one, but I wouldn't recommend it. It's better to have some user settings to open for final output.

Also, you can make a default scene were the settings are included. Vue Infinite lets you make such a scene, that opens as the startup scene.
The lower versions don't have that feature, but you can get it with a little extra work. Just uncheck "Create empty scene on startup", and load your own "Default scene" as the first thing (unless you want another). I have Complete, and use this method. I've also replaced the default atmosphere with my own.

About the C3D items, I've deleted the ~~ files, as Bruno suggests.

Oh, just realized that it's ProStudio - then use the workaround for the default scene.

Quote - You can save the render settings using the Save icon next to "User settings" render quality. But they cannot be made default. (because when you make a test render, you don't want to use these settings, but faster ones). As for the Corn items, you should have a corn icon at the bottom of your collections. Long click it, and if you have a "ghost" icon, choose it, it will permentently hide the Corn items. If you don't have this icon, look for all the files that start with a double tilde ~~ in your Vue content folder, and delete them.

  Thank you Bruno! :)
HugZ!
Ariana

Quote - Oh, just realized that it's ProStudio - then use the workaround for the default scene.

First Thank you!!! :)
Second, ? I do not or was not aware of a work around for V7PS! Could you SS me where to look? ThanX again!

BTW, I am aware that Vue is now up to vers9.... but I don't think my dinosaur will support 9 and until I honestly get a full render out of it I may never upgrade.

Funny, I have Bryce7Pro, and CarraraPro 8, and neither of these take the estimated 39 hours to render that Vue does! Could someone tell me if the setting I have are correct for a fast good quality render? If they are could someone SS theirs for me to see? I really need the help there....

Should I push my virtual memory or tweak something in my nVidia settings to help me with Vue? It is the only program that does not give me a quality, fast render. I would be willing to give it up to 2 hours, more then that makes it of no use to me. I have not even tried doing animations/video yet.

HugZ!
Ariana

The workaround I mentioned was in my first message, about making a default  startup scene.

The render settings in the screendunp look pretty standard, but we can't see the the transparency and reflection settings, nor the anitaliasing. They are "behind" the edit buttons.
If you wan't to find out what you can do with something in Vue, it's a good idea to click the "Edit" button to see what it reveals :)

Don't pay too much attention to the estimated render time at the beginning of a render, it'll be lowered once you let it run some more.  Unless your doing something really wrong in your settings, Vue should render faster than Bryce.

There are no "all-purpose" best settings, then everybody would use them. Depending of the type of scene you're rendering, some effects can have low quality. For a standard nature scene, you don't need high settings in the relections and transparency tracing. That's for scenery with glass and metals.
Check the atmosphere settings, and lower the quality of the haze etc. if you don't need to render a grain-free sky.
Lower the quality settings for GI and Radiosity light models, often -1 will provide good results for nature scenes, and be sure to use the "outdoor radiosity" model. You only need the full radiosity for indoor scenes.

While i realize that there is no "magic slipper" fit for every render, generally there is a great basic starting point. I find a lot of tutorials actually contradict each other on what should be on or off! That is particularly confusing.

I basically only want to render landscape backgrounds for my work, I prefer deserts, and jungles to forests... if that helps any. I do think I like the God-Rays, but I am just learning.

Thank you!!! :)
HugZ!
Ariana

I wouldn't use systematic AA, most of the times, it's a waste of time (unless you are rendering with DOF or Motion blur, and in some indoors renders with GR lighting).

It doesn't make much sense to set Min and Max AA to the same level, because you are telling Vue to compute 9 levels of subrays all the time, even if they are not needed. Put a smaller value for minimum. The threshold should be raised also if you switch to "optimized" instead of "systematic". I go for 60% myslef.

Quote - I wouldn't use systematic AA, most of the times, it's a waste of time (unless you are rendering with DOF or Motion blur, and in some indoors renders with GR lighting).

It doesn't make much sense to set Min and Max AA to the same level, because you are telling Vue to compute 9 levels of subrays all the time, even if they are not needed. Put a smaller value for minimum. The threshold should be raised also if you switch to "optimized" instead of "systematic". I go for 60% myslef.

Thank you Bruno, it actually defaulted back to Systematic, but I will always check that.

HugZ!
Ariana