Hi Guys

I just don't get it, (and I guess I'm glad that I don't see these kind of render times) but it doesn't take that long to render things for me.

I have a good computer but it's 2 years old, in another year or so I'll be thinking about getting a new one.

Just to be fair, I made a new image and I put in everything but the kitchen sink. I didn't spend a lot of effort on the composition or lighting..

It has 2 Cloth Panes, a Fog Pane, 2 Figures, a lot of props, 4 lights, Trees, about every thing I could throw in.

The building in on one cloth pane and stone wall is on another with a trans map.

I rendered it at 1920 by 1200 pixels, (as high a resolution as my monitor can show) and at Firefly full final render settings.

The only thing I didn't turn on was IDL.

Here is the image reduced in size a lot from the original...

It took 3 minutes to render this in Firefly.

To render is in Preview mode with everything turned up to the max setting takes about 1 second, and still looks pretty good.

My computer specs i7 2.93 GHz, 8 Gigs of Ram, ATI 5870 video card.

How can render times vary by such a large amount, some of the computer specs don't sound a lot different then mine?

I did it again with IDL turned on and that raised the time quite a bit, but it was still under 10 minutes.

I'm sure glad I don't see render times like that, I don't have the patience to wait hours to see what is going to come up. LOL

I can't imagine doing my animation and having it take hours, or even over night to render.

Mike

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