crocodilian opened this issue on Jan 12, 2008 · 5 posts
crocodilian posted Sat, 12 January 2008 at 2:12 PM
I'm loving Daz Studio 1.8. The Posing tools and responsiveness are soooo nice to use.
Render quality is nice, but for some reason, particularly with spotlights, its achingly sloooow. Right now I'm at 54 minutes and counting on a scene with 3 spotlights. Shadows are raytraced, but not soft. Render is at best 1/3 done! This is on a dual Xeon machine with loads of memory. . .
Using the 3Delight software renderer, I hasten to add.
Anyone have useful idead about render times?
Cimaira posted Sat, 12 January 2008 at 3:10 PM
on your advanced render settings tab, check the max ray trace depth, that can effect the render time dramatically. I have mine set at 2, on some renders you can even get away with setting it to 1.
cimaira
RubiconDigital posted Sat, 12 January 2008 at 8:40 PM
Try reducing the value of Shadow Samples. That can make a huge difference to render times.
crocodilian posted Mon, 14 January 2008 at 8:26 PM
thanks for these pieces of advice. Valuable and help.
for whatever reason, the 3Delight renderer has the least render efficient spotlights in the business. . .
Boofy posted Tue, 15 January 2008 at 11:55 PM
THATS what i wanted to know! thanks guys!