Forum: Vue


Subject: YYYEEEEEEEEEEHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAA !!! 2 (The Return) :-)

Bop opened this issue on Dec 27, 2001 ยท 13 posts


MikeJ posted Fri, 28 December 2001 at 7:53 PM

Still though, you could probably do an Ultra render in less than 20 hours even, if you took the shadows of all those tiny point lights. You could get the necessary shadow effects from only 1 or 2 invisible point lights. That's what causedd the enormous render time, because Vue has to calculate shadows for each and every light in the scene, and in Ultra, it does far more calculations than in Final. I bet if you took the shadows off those tiny flare lights, you could do an Ultra render in less than 7 hours. Unles the render is really big, I don't see any reason for it to take that long in Final, if the shadow-casting were removed from them. Just a tip for future projects.... The reason I bring it up is because those lights are so tiny, their shadows won't be having much of an effect on the scene, and all their doing is eating up render time. The lens flare will still look the same, too, with or without shadow-casting. This is really a very charming picture. :)