JIMMYJOHN opened this issue on Jun 10, 2012 · 7 posts
JIMMYJOHN posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 5:31 PM
Some hair take an awful long time to render compared to some others. I wonder if there are any specific setups I can apply to them in order to reduce render time, even if that mean loosing some quality. Thanks.
moriador posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 5:39 PM
You can make the hair invisible to raytracing.
It won't cast raytraced shadows or show up in reflections, but doing so will reduce render times considerably.
PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.
JIMMYJOHN posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 5:53 PM
Cool thanks! I'll try that and will tell you how it went.
JIMMYJOHN posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 6:19 PM
Much better, indeed!
Pitty they don't show in mirrors anymore, but we can't get everyting, can we?
moriador posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 6:56 PM
Quote - Much better, indeed!
Pitty they don't show in mirrors anymore, but we can't get everyting, can we?
Alas, no.
I always turn raytracing off for hair when I'm doing test renders. It's too annoying otherwise. But I turn it back on for final renders. Sometimes I forget to turn it back on and then wonder why the shadows all have bald heads.
PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.
ashley9803 posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 7:31 PM
I've heard that the latest SR for P2012 greatly speeds up hair render times when using IDL.
Does anyone know if that's true?
hborre posted Sun, 10 June 2012 at 7:45 PM
Yes, it is true.