Forum: Bryce


Subject: Lastminute WIP for Challenge.

Rayraz opened this issue on Apr 28, 2003 ยท 7 posts


Rayraz posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 2:30 PM

Okay, you've already seen the Thingy-mased matrifying shuriken and the boot. Here's the environment. Now the only problem is modelling the human. I really hope I'll finish the scene in time.

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Rayraz posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 2:35 PM

The only Postwork at the moment is some minor color-contrast tweaking in PSP. This image rendered in 36 minutes on a res of 1280x960 with normal AA. However when I turned on Real ambience to get a nice GI/Radiosity feel, but even at 16 RPP it suddenly took 5 minutes for the first row of the first pass to render. What could cause such a dramatic increase in complexity? Real Ambience is complex, but this increase was rediculous(sp?) Any ideas what could speed up a Real Ambience render of this scene?

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Aldaron posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 2:51 PM

Nope, real ambience is a render hog. I had a simple flat color scene (no textures just colors) and with true ambience it take 10-15 minutes to render at a small size. Add soft shadows and blurry reflections it went up to over 3 hours.


AgentSmith posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 7:17 PM

Yeah, just the nature of the beast with True Ambience. Kinda comparable to radiosity or GI in (almost) all other programs. Actually, I don't know the technical specifics of what True Ambience does (byond what it can make your scene look like), if anyone knows...? Btw, LOVE the scene. `Course my thing is dirt and rust, so of course I love it. But, also the reddish glow coming from the stairs...very nice! AS

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Ang25 posted Mon, 28 April 2003 at 9:23 PM

Oh you have got to get this all together before voting. Its looking so good, the textures are really good. And the scene has a feel to it. Don't worry about the true ambience for the challenge. I think it looks great already. JUST GET IT DONE! please. Ang


madmax_br5 posted Tue, 29 April 2003 at 4:02 PM

No matter what advanced options i turn on, the render time stays about the same. FOr example, at 36 rpp, no matter how many options i turn on it renders at the same speed. Good for me i guess!


catlin_mc posted Tue, 29 April 2003 at 8:39 PM

Looking very good Rayraz. I'm a bit concerned though, where do those stairs lead too, the flaming pits of hell? 8) Catlin