Forum: Vue


Subject: a couple of final render size setup questions

droyd opened this issue on Oct 05, 2001 ยท 6 posts


droyd posted Fri, 05 October 2001 at 10:20 PM

Hi Everyone, I'm in the process of setting up my final render on my first serious vue image. I've read most of the comments in the forum relating to print size and rendering size but I want to pick some brains on the subject anyway. Time really isn't the issue, I'm just wondering if I'm wasting time with the larger dpi setting (300). I'm only going to print it out on my home printer which has a maximum 300 dpi output. Here's the parameters of the image. The image will be rendered in the television 16/9 setting. The scene consists of 130 objects, 4 lights (no volumetrics). The polygon count is 1,270,435. At 72 dpi with a resolution of 4200 X 2363 and standard antialias, the approximate render time should be about 11 to 12 hours, if I can believe the readout after I rendered about 3% of it. At 300 dpi with a resolution of 2000 X 1125 and standard antialias, the time should be about 1 to 2 hours! Even with the 300 dpi setting with a superior antialias the estimate is about 6 hours. So, with this in mind I guess my question is are we dealing with a Poser-like situation with rendering in Vue? You would think with a 300 dpi setting instead of a 72 that it would take longer instead of less time. What kind of settings are appropriate? Since it seems that Vue will take longer to render the 72 dpi setting will the quality be better? Rendermasters give me your thoughts. Thanks, droyd