Mistfall opened this issue on Oct 23, 2003 ยท 14 posts
Mistfall posted Thu, 23 October 2003 at 10:05 PM
Hello! I jumped into my new copy of Vue Pro by doing the QuickStart tutorial - the one where you add an atmosphere, a terrain, water, and a tree, slap on a couple materials, do a ten second animation, and render a small window in Broadcast quality. I followed the tutorial with 2 exceptions: I used a Volumetric Atmosphere and the Autumn Cherry tree rather than a palm tree. I know that both of these exceptions added to my render time, but it took 4 hours on my 800 MHz iMac with 756 meg of RAM to render a 160 x 106 window at Broadcast quality. Is this a typical render time for a scene this size? Might I be doing something horribly wrong? I have a horrible feeling that when I really start adding foliage, models, and more animation to some scenes my renders won't be done in the same calendar year that I start them!