TobinLam opened this issue on Jan 18, 2005 ยท 7 posts
TobinLam posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 8:44 AM
I have been spending too much time playing around in Bryce. That is not my job, studying is. So I put Bryce out of action for a while. I picked my favorite image and started it rendering poster size at 200 dpi. That was yesterday evening. It has rendering row 60 out of a few thousand now. It should be a long while. In the mean time, I can study and get enough money to have it printed on a poster when it's done.
erosiaart posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 8:54 AM
and your comp will soon start panting, hang it's tongue out, huff, puff... and since it can't have a cuppa nor a peg to keep it going,.. pouff! You will wonder where your comp has gone... until you see it half hanging from your study table, unable to even move, for it is so sore from rendering so much!! :-) :-) :-) Have a fun time studying..may you find your comp at the end of its journey!
RodsArt posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 9:00 AM
Save many many time!! Can you say Meltdown!!
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Ockham's razor- It's that simple
TobinLam posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 11:25 AM
I had it going for a solid week once and nothing happened. It's now one percent complete, middle of row 70. I took it a step further and rendered to disk. That way I can't pause it and work on something else in Bryce.
drawbridgep posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 3:33 PM
You can run multiple copies of Bryce though. Oh, sorry, that's probably not very helpful to your studies. ;-)
TobinLam posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 4:23 PM
That's incredible! I figured out I could pause, close, and restart renders on my own. Forget render to disk, I have to restart my computer. Oh well, what is filling up the screen now that I restarted the render reminds me of the mac background, all abstract-looking because it's only the top left corner of the whole image. The timer actually told me it would be through in less than two hours. Realistically, that is probably how long the second pass will take, then it has two more to go and the first pass only took 38 minutes.
TobinLam posted Tue, 18 January 2005 at 4:33 PM
No wonder it only took 38 minutes, I forgot to check the resolution. It was set at 3200x2400, not 5600x4200. That's 28"x21" at 200 dpi, enough room for a title at the bottom of a 32x24 poster. Uhm...Houston, we have a problem. Screen renders don't go up that high. What do I do? Try to find someone with a computer they aren't using and run Lightning?