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I don't know if that is true or not, I take it that you are kidding about the fine print. Does anyone else have a suggestion?

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David

staigermanus, you may want to read the rules of the contest first.....

Cheers,

David

First off I would like to thank everyone for all the input you have given in the thread.

This has really given me some good ideas as to how to approach my printing problems.

Believe me I know about printers because I work for Canon and I use quite a few of the large format printers at work.

I must tell you that I myself have 3 Pentium D 3.2 GHz duel core systems and 3 Pentium 4 HT 3.2 GHz systems running with every computer having at least 2 to 4 Gig’s of RAM. All are using ATI PIC Express cards with 256 Megs of RAM. Over all I have around 4 Terabytes of harddrive space. All my systems have 8 Gigs DVD Burners for off storage.

So I don’t think it’s my systems that need to be upgraded.

Bryce Lighting is in a word is (A bust!) My pictures are quite complex and on the best of days I’m looking at around 15 to 24 hrs render time.

When I increase the Rays per pixels this can bring the render time up to over a week or more.

I cannot afford to have every system chugging along on 1 picture.

I will take all your suggestion into consideration, I just hope that DAZ will include the save function in the next release or so.

Cheers,

David

nruddock, could you give an example of what you suggest, or point to a program that is capable of doing this. I'm quite interested in what you said.

David

No offence but, I’m not talking about printing out at 11X17 (297x420mm) I’m referring to images that need to be printer 33” or greater.

I also have no problem at the resolution that you refer to.

The problem is that I have clients that need large print images that give the same quality that you get at a smaller resolution.

I’ve tried all methods and I know what does and does not work.

I wish it was as easy as importing into another program then printing but, at last, this is not the case.

Thanks for the input anyway, Chris, always good to hear from you………

Cheers,

David :biggrin:

All the pictures I create are created quite large, i.e.

1: The Document resolutions is set to 1280X960

2: The Document Aspect ratio is set to 4X3

3: AntiAliasing is set to Superfine.

4: The Render Resolution 1: 3.00 3840X2880

5: Render options are set as follows:

A: Quality mode will vary from 36 to 64 Rays per pixels. (Depending on project)

B:  All other setting are at defaults value except for Optimization which is set to aggressive and Post processing set to 48 bit dithering.   

All said in done you should have more then enough data to get a tack sharp render at sizes over 36” at 72 DPI.

Now the trick is to convince the printers that this will be the end results is quite another story.

I know that this method works because I’ve tried this at work with excellent results.

The bottom line is that you need a computer that can render at a fast enough rate to make RTD usable.

David

I personally like what you have done; the design is very imaginative and really has a good balance to it. Keep at it!!! Just my 2 cents.

Well Rudy that's well deserved.............Congrates........my friend!!! David.........

Thanks everyone for your comments, well for what ever reason I'm now able to upload again. ;-) I will say one thing though and that is I've never changed the way I have uploaded, must of been a ghost in the machine........;-) Thanks again, Bambam..................................

Question, where's the link to see all the postings for September's challenge?

I would like to make just one last comment, to all who have posted here, Thank you so much for giving me food for thought. I will definitely try to take all your suggestion to heart. If any one has an idea on how to make panels that would run horizontal on a sphere that you can scale to different sizes I would really love to here from you. Im not apposed to trying texturing or bump maps I just havent found or been able to create the correct ones for my designs yet. Again you have all been great!!! Thank you, David ;-)

Again thanks for all your comments; one thought though, I never said that my ships were model in one piece. I do understand that the ship will have seams and the like; I just have never been able to create textures that are set in the correct direction or scale. Most of the texture that I've seen on spaceships posted here would not fit my idea of what my ship should look like. For that reason I would not just pick anything. I have searched the web and work on different textures and bump maps myself but have never been satisfied with the results. It is easy to point to a picture and say see this is what Im talking about it is a whole other ball game to be able to create this effect in Bryce. You may say why dont you use a different program, not everyone has the money to spend. I do the best with what I have; also if I could create those textures correctly you would still just be seeing various shade of white. You still would not be using dark colors for the reasons Ive stated above. I will however take all the input that has been given into consideration for the future. Thanks again for the input. David ;-)

Thanks for the info but this is not science and again you aproch it from the Hollywood point of view and thats what I'm trying to stay away from. Also as far a micro meteors are concern if the ship I depect hit one depending on the size and the amount of meteors it would for the most part put the ship out of action. My ships do not have any forcefield to protect it Capt'n Kirk, and by the way it's Bambam ;-)