Forum: Bryce


Subject: Question regarding rendering time

whoopdat opened this issue on Dec 20, 2000 ยท 9 posts


whoopdat posted Wed, 20 December 2000 at 11:59 PM

Howdy, I've been considering throwing down some cash for Bryce, but I've heard (and read on a few places) that the rendering time is terrible (Digital Blasphemy for instance has one image where it says just adding volumetric lighting would kick the render time up by many, many hours). So basically my question is this: is it really that bad? If I have to wait 5 or 10 or 30 hours for an image to render, that's just obscene. Right now I'm running a Celeron 400 with 128 megs of ram but that'll be a P3 800 with 384 megs of ram soon, so will that help much? It looks like a great program, but I don't want to have to wait a day while an image renders before I can use my computer. Thanks for any info folks.