See you in 3,7 years :)

Try Batch rendering and you could get the time down to 1.4 years. ;)

Vue love to lie. What this means is "in 10 days I will crash, but hey, Charlie Brown loves to try and kick that football so why don't you give it a shot". :)

Hmm... so can't you go just a little bit smaller on the resolution??? Your computer will thank you for it! And what if, say about halfway through the render, you notice something you have to fix? You're a helluva patient guy, that's all I've got to say!

Well, 4 months and a half, it's not that bad is it?

I did many many many smaller renders first. I'm sure this time tomorrow if it hasn't crashed it will be down to about 5 days. Vue reestimates throughout the process.

Bruno021 that 3.7 years, but already it's down to 792 hours with 1% finished

Good lord, my poor computer would explode at the mere THOUGHT of taking that long to render.

That's on a quad core with 12gb ram!

Simple, Buy 18 more computers and feed it to the COWS!!

I have 1 more compiter to upgrade to quad core. Then ill put the 5 cows back to work as PoserPro and Vue cows. It just wasn't worth it with dual core cows

why would you need an image that big??

Its going to be printed on canvas and given as a gift. If it renders at the size it will print there is no loss of quality. Beside while it renders I'm only unable to use Vue (by license) the other quads at home are free to use with Poser and Photoshop

but what quad cores you using...i have a quad core with 8gig of ram but its only a intel 2.66 ghz with slow renders the intel i7 920 should eat through that in no time what so ever...i hate slow renders thats why i am waiting till i get a i7 that way you can overclock it with a good cpu cooler...the high cpu the faster the render should be...i think thats the thing with vue...its very demanding...so if you are a serious vue user...you really do need a high end pc and i mean high end...not just cheap ddr ram and a low end qaud core...nice image by the way!

Well I WAS going to buy an i7 but a few months ago 24gb of fast DDR3 was $2400 now its less than half of that, so maybe soon. I never over clock as I hate instability, but I know I could save A LOT of time if I did. The nex i7 extreme has 6 hyperthreaded cores!

Well we will have to put this to bed for now. I just had either my first thermal shutdown in years or I lost the power supply. May as well finish the upgrade of the last cow to quad, upgrade cows from Vue7 to 8.4 and try again.

Yup Power supply blew.

Check the manual. There is a way that you could render the scene in smaller squares and put them together later in Photoshop. I would also re-think the lighting and quality settings to try to get the time down.

see you later!!!

Canvas? THose prints look awesome but, because of the texture of canvas, you will lose lots of detail. You could really get by just fine with a smaller image.

Since it is a present (did i mention for Girlfriend/Ex-wife) I wanted it to be of the highest possible quality (for final I didn't even consider pushing harder than that). Also if the digital canvas print looks god enough I may attempt to sell future works that way. I had to push atmo qualitys all to PLUS 1 since pixalation resulted at that size with quality at zero. As stated above my Power supply blew and the scene was corrupted in the process. So I came up with a new sky (that i wasn't AS pleased with) and rendered out at 20x16 inches instead. The stated time was 545 hours, a big improvement. I sent it to render Saturday and checked into the hospital for some heart work, by the time i get out tomorrow (Wednesday)I hope to see some good progress. My project Due date is April 14th. In the mean while i am experimenting with replacing the horses hair and The princes's hair with Photoshoped in hair. So I have a Full size PNG with and without hair I'm working with. That i'm doing here in the Hospital bed with my high end laptop. The staff frowns at first thinking i'm working 8 hours a day, but i explaine it's fun, a hobby, not work they ask to see, then leave me be.