Yeah, my sentiments exactly (about the memory/object amount). I have a
Christmas tree written yet unrendered due to my meager 64 megs. Usually
there seems little need for such great numbers of "objects" in the
everyday scene, though this is an oversight since you never know when
you'll ditto objects so prolifically.
The shag is novel, like it a lot. I threw a food item away yesterday
that looked related to it.


Robert J Becraft wrote:
> 
> Whoa... needs some brill-creme and a razor and you'll be done.
> 
> I've run into the same problem... get around 120,000 objects and if you don't have a
machine with 100meg of memory or better,
> you top out about there for any kind of rendering.  I usually hope for enough detail
to say I've finished a particular scene
> but as with any render, you always could add a few thousand more itty bitty things.
> 
> Great Hair!
> 
> Regards,
> Robert J Becraft
> aka cas### [at] aolcom
> 
> Margus Ramst wrote:
> 
> > OK, just showing off my progress here.
> > Fur can now be added to any object, irrespective of shape/position etc.
> > But, TINSTAFL. Parse times skyrocket: this one took >15 minutes to
> > parse. I can probably reduce this, but the memory hit remains. This
> > scene has 85000 cones (~17000 hairs at 5 cones/hair for smooth
> > curvature). Unless you have at least 128M RAM - and I don't - it's a
> > real pain.
> > You can see that hairs still sprout out in a regular grid; I'll fix this
> > soon. The "baldness" at the top is partly intentional - hairs get
> > shorter towards the top. Just for fun.
> > When all is done (and there's sufficient interest) I'll post the source,
> > ASAP, for your inspection. Beware, it has a load of parameters and I
> > ain't gonna reduce them by much. Also, it is restricted to the
> > Superpatch, as it uses trace()
> >
> > Oh, and TINSTAFL = There Is No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
> >
> > Margus
> >
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