Frozen.....(TG2 Water test) by gradient

Terragen • Atmosphere/Mood • posted on Jan 13, 2007

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I've always wondered why so few of the TG2 renders show water....now, I know why. It takes sooooo loooong to render. This one took 69hrs 35 minutes with a P4- 2.2GHZ...yes, that's right almost 70 hours! Do NOT try this at home unless you have a powerful machine or lots of patience...LOL! Terrain: home built Postwork: sharpening I think this may be the first TG2 Iceberg....so, I hope you think it was worth the wait, Enjoy!

Comments (15)

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Star4mation

5:46PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

Hell! That's a long time for a render!!! 'Tis a fine image though!!!

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gradient

5:52PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

Yeah...thought I was going to have to hose down the computer to cool it down...LOL Actually, the title could also apply to the state of the rendering process....

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choronr

5:56PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

I think in part, a 10,000 rpm Western Digital 150 GB'Raptor' hard drive with an Intel Core 2 Duo 'Extreme' Quad Core processor; including an Nvidia 8800 GTX graphics card and 4GB of DDR2 RAM will give us the performance and speed we need to reduce render time and possibly eliminate crashes. However, you'll need a BFG 1,000 watt power supply to support this. Beautiful render John; it was worth the wait!

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Naoo

6:21PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

Very good!!! Excellent mood!!!

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Maori

6:45PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

I totally agree with our dear friend Bob Choronr. Excellent work, John !!!!

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kansas

8:15PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

Excellent. A very long render time. WOW!

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Zacko

10:11PM | Sat, 13 January 2007

70 hours????? YIKES!!!! How can it take that long? Thats a cool render btw...its the first ice berg render PERIOD i see...so youre unique in my book. Sorry...gotta cut this comment short, im on my way to work. See ya John. #:o)

Sethren

2:12AM | Sun, 14 January 2007

Screw that! I'll wait for a Quad Core.

Valerie-Ducom

3:31AM | Sun, 14 January 2007

OMG!!!! It's so beautiful and impressiv this work ===> Fav !!!! I love it... Good day :)

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superza

4:22AM | Sun, 14 January 2007

That's Very cool Gradient! About water, last mine (1600*1000) took about 56 hours on a 3,4 ghz dual core, but it's nothing if compared with reflective and luminous shader, i get one stil in render that ran a full week only to produce GI sprites :-S (i understand that such slowness it's related on check GI surface details flag) IMHO, Slow time could be also related to reflective and luminous shaders if you add them on the iceberg surface. To that point, listen to the JavaJones words, TGD is not optimized for reflective and luminous shaders. Regards, Max

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