Tempus Fugit opened this issue on Sep 16, 2002 ยท 9 posts
Tempus Fugit posted Tue, 17 September 2002 at 4:24 AM
The image is 646 x 612 pixels, and I think it took about 3 hours on my P4 1.4, with 1024 megs RAM. (I increased the dpi to do some smoothing, and the final image here is a little bigger than the original, so there's a little stair-stepping). There are two ray-traced lights in the scene, the ray-traced reflection, and then the trans maps on the hair and eyes were the slowest areas. I had originally tried to do a 3000 pixel high version, but I got impatient and bailed after a few hours. A feature for the renderer that would be nice is one like Bryce has, where you can stop the render, save the file, exit out, shut down the machine, etc, and then later open it again and hit resume. I don't have that much faith in my equipment to go and do a bunch of other things in the background while it's crunching a really complex file.