Thanks!  The subscattering version took over 4 days.  This version (using a
simple white pigment) took only a couple of hours.

"Ross Litscher" <lit### [at] osuedu> wrote in message
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> Patrick Dugan <pat### [at] netinsnet> wrote in message
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> > This is (was) a simple test for making skateboard wheels.  It took me
two
> > weeks to come up with a macro that would "spit out" a skateboard wheel
in
> > preparation for eventually making an entire skateboard.  At this rate I
> will
> > be very old before I get it completed.  The scene is an HDRI (campus
> scene)
> > with a lightsource added.  I tried using subsurface scattering but this
> > scene took over 4 days to render (1 gig 512 ram) so I gave up and went
> with
> > straight white texture.
> >
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> >
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> this image took 4 days, or the subsufrace scattering version? granted the
> wheels look very very good, but that seems like a long time if in fact the
> non subsurface scattering version took 4 days.
>
> but the wheels look damn good. i'd say its a success.
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