pack opened this issue on Jul 17, 2001 ยท 8 posts
pack posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 9:20 AM
All I do, is turn off antialiasing. Up to 500% increase in render speed, with very little quality hit. Most of my time is spent test rendering, why wait for a little quality increase?
SAMS3D posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 9:58 AM
That is a great tip...this is refering to Bryce 5 right? Good tip. Sharen
pack posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 10:34 AM
dON'T HAVE b5. iT'S PRETTY UNIVERSAL TO 3d, but B5 in particular, I guess cause it's a raytracer....
Allen9 posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 3:42 PM
I'm using B4 and have found that there is a MAJOR difference in the final quality when using antialiasing. I don't normally use it during the "draft" stage when working but sure use it for that final render. I've compared final output of my stuff both with & without antialiasing, and without it, all the details that I put so much time into just don't come out right. I guess it depends on what kind of pic you are doing.
pack posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 4:46 PM
Exactly. It's for jaggies- the diagonal lines (which computers don't make straight they stairstep, if you remember in the low rez, low color days of yore) and colors of high contrast- So if you hve diaganol lines with high contrast- you'll notice the diff, but only at those spots..
Vile posted Tue, 17 July 2001 at 8:02 PM
When you want to use some of the "new" special render options you can only do this in Premium mode which is slower then molasses in December even on PIII 600!
darknewt posted Sat, 24 November 2001 at 1:09 AM
Does anybody know of a bryce5 benchmark and tuning tool?
darknewt posted Mon, 26 November 2001 at 4:22 PM
OK I found a benchmark tool it is at http://www.planet-3d.com/bmark.htm