Quote - ...it might be a good idea to also slowly start looking into some other software that renders faster. Especially if you love to do highly complicated scenes.

That´s actually a tough choice. What bryce lack in speed, it compensate with beeing able to handle extreme polycounts very well, which would be necessary for those complex scenes.

No problem, just glad i can help. Hope you can speed things up. 
Just remember the great tips you got from the guys here as well. Each and every one of them will save you countless hours of render time. :)

Beautiful modeling pal. Looks fantastic even without textures.  :thumbupboth:

Well, since you´re in the business as well, you probably know this already. But anyway, for a standard 70x100 cm high quality poster, a 4200x6000 uncompressed TIF in 72 dpi is more than enough. Naturally, the end result also depend on the printer and material, but  you should be able to go for 5000x5000 without problems.
If you want to be on the safe side, up the resolution with 1000 pixels on each side. It will still save you a lot of time compared to a 300 dpi render.

Quote - It absolutely has to be 300dpi. 72dpi works only for screen renders or low-quality small images. It won't work for professional print jobs.

 
Unfortunatly i´ll need to disagree on this. If the client demands 300 dpi, there´s no question. 
But i actually work in a printshop, printing out high quality art posters among other things, and 72 dpi works perfectly fine in most cases IF you render out large. 
You simply wont see the difference in the end result.

Unfortunatly 300dpi have become something of a mantra in the business and everyone wants it, but there are actually very few cases you really need it for printing purposes.

Nuff about that...

Are you using a lot of highres textures? If you do, try changing some of them and see how much difference these make. Your windows shouldn´t make that much difference unless they have a very high reflection value.

200 days sound crazy, even for a highly complex scene.
Soft shadows(as Flak pointed out), volumetric lights, DOF, highres image based textures & transparency masks, glass and reflection all eat render time, so try applying what you can with postwork. It can save you weeks (or in this case, months) of rendering.

Perhaps you should also consider upgrading your machine if you´re going for heavy scenery. 3D require a lot of power from the hardware, and unfortunatly it doesn´t sound like your CPU and the amount of RAM will be enough if you need to speed things up.

One other thing i would consider is the resolution. 300dpi for a normal sized boardgame sounds like overkill to me. For most printing, 72 dpi and render resolutions around 5-6000 pixels is usually more than enough.
Unless it´s a very large boardgame. :)

Good luck.

Way to go Rod. Great work for a first attempt.

I think that sounded just like one of the spam emails i keep getting. They still make no sence to me. :biggrin:

Hey, i recognize that scene. Glad you like it.
...and btw don´t listen to Bryster. I haven´t used Vue at all for the parliament. :biggrin:

CD, a stupid question, do you save the images as jpg´s?

It´s tragic, but unfortunatly very common.
Those people usually don´t last long though.

Hey guys.

Thanks for the tip. I browsed around a little, but it seems as if they leave the images untouched(in most cases i assume). I´ve found a few of my stuff, but all the tags were there, so personally i´m ok with that.

Phil, i´ve sent you some login info. Use it if you need it.

mboncher,
Are you kidding, he´s the only guy who can create a 47 minute track and make me enjoy every second of it. :D Rendez Vouz II and Oxygene 2 i consider to be two of the best tracks ever released by any artist. 

I saw him live during his "Oxygene Tour", when he played in Scandinavium, Gothenburg some years back. The concert really started out superbly, with his laserharp unfolding, sending laserbeams throughout the entire concert arena. Awesome! :)

How was Depeche? I missed them when they played in Gothenburg, which is about an hour drive from here. :(

I rarely go to any conserts, but of the artists i´ve seen live, Jean Michel Jarre still top my list. It was a surreal experience.

Importing the stuff worked fine, although it was a slow process. :)
I got the memory error when trying to save the scene.
But i´ll try out exporting the model in.cob and see if i have better luck.

If anything else fails, i´ll try Maxwell again. Although i would have to split up the scene into 9 different renders. :biggrin: