Re: Rendering times and nurbscurve picture ;-)

[Neil Cooke]

Hi Frank,   Only guessing I'm afraid...   Apart from upgrade the cpu, RAM, etc ... maybe check the render settings ... if you are using the default "Super High Quality" or the "Quality Over Speed" then cut the Recursion Depths and Anti-aliasing Levels and increase the thresholds of both. The results here can be quite rough depending on your final output.   I have found with some projects that it is faster to render a rough image to bmp than raytrace within the viewport. You would have to test that for yourself.   If you can drop one or two light sources then you will have faster renders. The particular materials you have chosen need to compute reflections and reflections of reflections etc, except with such small radii this data will be invisible even though it needs to processed.   Set "shadows invisible" also set "no shadows" in the general tab for the object sets but then you might want some shadows cast on the ground plane so maye select some of the nurb objects only and uncheck "shadows invisible". With "no shadows" set, the objects dont receive shadows from other nurb objects and maybe this would not be obvious to anyone looking at the final image ... test this.   Same for the lights ... have only one light source, the main one, set to "ray traced shadows" ... in the spec tab of the light object's property box.   These are all the buttons I play with when checking a job for shorter render-times and I'm not even sure that my guesses are correct but anyway, here it is.   Neil Cooke . ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank Brübach To: user-list@light.realsoft3d.com Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 12:24 AM Subject: Rendering times and nurbscurve picture ;-) Dear Realsoft friends, I attach a simple "nurbscurve" picture with to nurbscurve balls (rundabout 60 - 100 nurbscurves), three lights (points), one distant light, two colours (gold, copper2) and an analytic ground. The rendering time are nearly 3 hours (800x600) with a pentium III machine, I know, its not so fast! ;-) . How can I reduce the rendering times with realsoft 5.1 at all? a) scanline rendering, b) Quality reduce from 24 to 4 (a good advice from beginner, thank you!) and more??? Perhaps somebody can help me for the further rendering days ;-) My experience with the rendering theme is not very high; I am here a bloody beginner! :-) Have a nice week end to all engaged realsoft friends ;-), best regards and "servus", Frank Brübach Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS!    Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193