Quote - > Quote - My longest Vue render was between 5 and 6 days... I lost track of the hours.

Longest Poser render, probably about 3-4 days...

Good God.... between 5 and 6 days? Really? I was about to toss in 4 days rendering time with Carrara 3, for a 30-second 640 x 480 animation. Then again, I was using an AMD Athlon 1400 single core with only 512mb of memory and onboard 64mb video..... 6 days.... D-A-Y-U-M!

...and those times were with a Quad Core i7 and 16GB RAM. Down to scene complexity primarily... oh and the Vue render was via the batch renderer, which is CPU throttled.

Likewise, with the longest Poser render... this was using Queue Manager, which, again, seems to have some sort of throttling in play relative to the background render.

I'm tending to just go with rendering background now... it seems to be much quicker for whatever reason...

Quote - > Quote - 20 bounces? wtf? what are you rendering, the mirror fight scene from Enter the Dragon?

ROFLMAO! :lol:

That'd be some render...

Actually that's a frickin' excellent idea for what to do next with Geriatric Ninja Doris...

I love it!!! Have you seen mine?!

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1303669&user_id=127942&np&np

29 hours.  I cancelled it 3/4 of the way through.

If my render takes more than 1/2 an hour, I disassemble and render in pieces and reassemble it in a graphic program.  I've had too many cases where I've let my computer run a render for hours and hours, only to find that it had actually frozen up or something.  So now I just hide stuff and render in sections.

I've had Poser renders run for 36 -48 hours on more than one occasion but VUE. Crap I've had them take 5 or 6 days This on an i7 2600k with 8 gigs of RAM. Not the biggest speced machine on the planet but not really a slouch either.

Quote - If my render takes more than 1/2 an hour, I disassemble and render in pieces and reassemble it in a graphic program.  I've had too many cases where I've let my computer run a render for hours and hours, only to find that it had actually frozen up or something.  So now I just hide stuff and render in sections.

Exactly.

Though, for me, I let it run while I sleep. If it takes any longer than a normal night's sleep for me, I'll render in parts.

The last render I had to do that with involved IDL and transparencies and a lot of reflective surfaces. At some point in the middle/end, the machine reached 98% RAM usage. I have to work on this computer, so it can't be out of service for longer than a few hours. And at 98% RAM, even surfing the web is mighty uncomfortable.

There was no way I could split up the render into sections on the one I mentioned.  I usually do that as a matter of course but it wasn't an option this time.

I was attempting to use a lot of BB's shaders in P6 on my old Athlon machine with 1.5GB RAM.  I think the render would have finished eventually but I needed to use it for something else. 

Yeah, sometimes you just can't split them up.

It's why I'm always drooling over newer, faster machines.

Quote - > Quote - 20 bounces? wtf? what are you rendering, the mirror fight scene from Enter the Dragon?

ROFLMAO! :lol:

That'd be some render...

Actually that's a frickin' excellent idea for what to do next with Geriatric Ninja Doris...

So MonkeyCloud when Doris jumps in the air and lands again how many bounces....to ahh...certain body parts :ohmy:

Quote - So MonkeyCloud when Doris jumps in the air and lands again how many bounces....to ahh...certain body parts :ohmy:

She told me that back in the day she used to spar with classic British wrestlers Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. She said she learnt some of her key moves and developed her strict dietary regime under the tuition of those two masters...

Her favourite move however is a Tai Chi inspired one she developed herself. It's called "Bury the Tiger under the Mountain".

woahs, my render bucket hasn't moved since last night. 

does raising the ffrender priority in taskmanager do any good?  or will i just totally tank my pc ?

it's not coming out the way i was hoping, anyhoos, i was aiming for art nouveau-ish, Alphonse Mucha.

Quote - > Quote - So MonkeyCloud when Doris jumps in the air and lands again how many bounces....to ahh...certain body parts :ohmy:

She told me that back in the day she used to spar with classic British wrestlers Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. She said she learnt some of her key moves and developed her strict dietary regime under the tuition of those two masters...

Her favourite move however is a Tai Chi inspired one she developed herself. It's called "Bury the Tiger under the Mountain".

You're a goof. I say that with much affection...lmao. Love it....lol.

Laurie

Quote - woahs, my render bucket hasn't moved since last night. 

does raising the ffrender priority in taskmanager do any good?  or will i just totally tank my pc ?

it's not coming out the way i was hoping, anyhoos, i was aiming for art nouveau-ish, Alphonse Mucha.

FFRender should already take all the CPU cores and be used at 100%. Raising the priority will not help (Unless of  course you have other CPU intensive applications running at the same time)

cpu dual-core is bouncing 99 - 100%.

ffrender64 memory usage has gone down from 1.2gb to the 300mb range?

it doesn't say not responding.

a screen grab for posterity

Quote - > Quote - So MonkeyCloud when Doris jumps in the air and lands again how many bounces....to ahh...certain body parts :ohmy:

She told me that back in the day she used to spar with classic British wrestlers Big Daddy and Giant Haystacks. She said she learnt some of her key moves and developed her strict dietary regime under the tuition of those two masters...

Her favourite move however is a Tai Chi inspired one she developed herself. It's called "Bury the Tiger under the Mountain".

I just spat Red Bull all over my laptop screen....

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cpu dual-core is bouncing 99 - 100%.

ffrender64 memory usage has gone down from 1.2gb to the 300mb range?

it doesn't say not responding.

a screen grab for posterity

This is why I only render what I need in the scene. Usually only the characters and their clothing. I tried to do a render using "The Pad" scene with Sydney and James. I ended up taking everything out but the two people and the couch that Sydney was sitting on. I added the rest in later using GIMP. It messes with the lighting and shadows, but I don't like it when I can do anything else on the laptop because of a RAM eating render. If I get a new laptop which will be the fastest and best graphics card available at the minute, I will probably attempt a full scene render again.

did you load the Pad from it's .pz3? it has lots of parented lights. i del many of the lights and it rendered much better.

Regardless of how slow a render is, this idea that you can't do anything else with your computer is odd to me. I've been launching Poser at low priority for years. When you do this, it only uses the CPU if YOU aren't.

 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3972986&ebot_calc_page#message_3972986

Yeah, I use BB's trick since Poser 8 and I don't have any problems using Poser with other programs ;).

Laurie

I don't have any problem running Poser and browsing the web simultaneously in Win 7 Pro; perhaps I need to run Poser at a higher priority when I'm not; is this possible?

Quote - Regardless of how slow a render is, this idea that you can't do anything else with your computer is odd to me. I've been launching Poser at low priority for years. When you do this, it only uses the CPU if YOU aren't.

 http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3972986&ebot_calc_page#message_3972986

It's not the CPU that's the problem for me when rendering; it's the RAM. Firefly runs in a lower priority, but when it and Poser and the OS are consuming 11.5 of my 12 gb, I find I cannot use an internet browser. What could I be doing wrong?

Oh - swapping is a different story. It doesn't obey priority - when swapping is called for, all apps suffer.