"MichaelJF" <mi-### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> >
> > When you are ready to post them, I am sure we all would like to see some
> > of your images - since you seem to have long render times, they must be
> > fairly complex.
> >
> > Welcome to the community.
> >
> > John
> > --
> Seconded,
> Michael

Since you are new to POV I assume you are new to the newsgroups as well. You
cannot post images here. You must use the group "povray-binary-images". Be sure,
we will notice your uploads there.

Best regards,
Michael

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Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 27/01/14 20:57, IceflakeCS wrote:
> >
> > Fantastic! Michael, and you others, thank you! This is all much clearer to me
> > now. I'm not just new to POV-Ray, but to 3D rendering overall. Trying out
> > different software and renderers at the moment, and I must say POV-Ray gives
> > really nice, characteristic, results.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Lennie
> >
> >
>
> When you are ready to post them, I am sure we all would like to see some
> of your images - since you seem to have long render times, they must be
> fairly complex.
>
> Welcome to the community.
>
> John
> --
> Protect the Earth
> It was not given to you by your parents
> You hold it in trust for your children

Thank you John.

But really, they are nothing special at all. At the moment I'm just fooling
around with different scenes and settings. The reason they take so long to
render is because of the radiosity function.

Example 1
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/01.png

Rendered with radiosity, render time 14+ hours

Example 2
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/02.png

Rendered without radiosity, render time about 1.5 minutes.

It's a big difference between those images, but not 14 hour difference.

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"IceflakeCS" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > On 27/01/14 20:57, IceflakeCS wrote:
> > >
> > > Fantastic! Michael, and you others, thank you! This is all much clearer to me
> > > now. I'm not just new to POV-Ray, but to 3D rendering overall. Trying out
> > > different software and renderers at the moment, and I must say POV-Ray gives
> > > really nice, characteristic, results.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Lennie
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When you are ready to post them, I am sure we all would like to see some
> > of your images - since you seem to have long render times, they must be
> > fairly complex.
> >
> > Welcome to the community.
> >
> > John
> > --
> > Protect the Earth
> > It was not given to you by your parents
> > You hold it in trust for your children
>
> Thank you John.
>
> But really, they are nothing special at all. At the moment I'm just fooling
> around with different scenes and settings. The reason they take so long to
> render is because of the radiosity function.
>
> Example 1
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/01.png
>
> Rendered with radiosity, render time 14+ hours
>
> Example 2
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/02.png
>
> Rendered without radiosity, render time about 1.5 minutes.
>
> It's a big difference between those images, but not 14 hour difference.

Forgot to mentioned these were originally rendered in 3840x2160.

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On 28/01/14 21:21, IceflakeCS wrote:
>> Example 1
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/01.png
>>
>> Rendered with radiosity, render time 14+ hours
>>
>> Example 2
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/02.png
>>
>> Rendered without radiosity, render time about 1.5 minutes.
>>
>> It's a big difference between those images, but not 14 hour difference.
> 
> Forgot to mentioned these were originally rendered in 3840x2160.
> 
> 

...which is why they take so long ;-) That's approximately 8.25
Megapixels. As a rule of thumb, I try not to render anything larger than
1 Mp when I'm developing a scene. It's only when I'm happy with it that
I go large.

BTW Your example was really good. Are you sure you're just a beginner?

John
-- 
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It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children

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Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> On 28/01/14 21:21, IceflakeCS wrote:
> >> Example 1
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/01.png
> >>
> >> Rendered with radiosity, render time 14+ hours
> >>
> >> Example 2
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/02.png
> >>
> >> Rendered without radiosity, render time about 1.5 minutes.
> >>
> >> It's a big difference between those images, but not 14 hour difference.
> >
> > Forgot to mentioned these were originally rendered in 3840x2160.
> >
> >
>
> ...which is why they take so long ;-) That's approximately 8.25
> Megapixels. As a rule of thumb, I try not to render anything larger than
> 1 Mp when I'm developing a scene. It's only when I'm happy with it that
> I go large.
>
> BTW Your example was really good. Are you sure you're just a beginner?
>
> John
> --
> Protect the Earth
> It was not given to you by your parents
> You hold it in trust for your children

I was just surprised by the difference in time between the one rendered with
radiosity and the one without :)

And yes, still claim to be just a beginner. Installed Blender during Christmas
holidays, and in the beginning of January I decided to install POV-Ray as well.
This scene hasn't been coded in POV-Ray, that I would never (probably) be able
to do as programming (not even the easy languages) is far from my best quality
:)

But I will have a look into the coding later on, as it seems you can create some
really crazy stuff (abstract 3D) using it.

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