Forum: Bryce


Subject: Something about lighting / render times

Doublecrash opened this issue on Mar 02, 2003 ยท 11 posts


Doublecrash posted Sun, 02 March 2003 at 3:55 AM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=346347

Hi everyone. Just wanted to share this. In the picture above (sorry for the heavy compression, you can see the higher quality one at the link above) I used only one radial with soft shadows set to 100%. I was trying to emulate a light coming in from a window on the left and tried some lightdomes because I wanted a bit of realism (not too much, just a bit). Estimated render times were really ugly (ranging from 3 days with 15 radials to 12/14 days[!!!] when I wanted to use 30 or more. So, I trusted ole Bryce premium FX, used only one radial (RGB 29, 29, 29 to avoid pure white) and AAsed at 64rpp with soft shadows on (and a tiny bit of DOF). It rendered in less than 12 hours, and I assure you the result is not worse than using the lightdome (I don't have any WIPs of the other settings because the rendertimes were the abovesaid, so I judge only from the previews). Thought it could be of help and/or encouragement for those who have a slow PC. Have a nice Sunday. Stefano