You have no idea how close you are to the truth! I've been rendering 
different versions of this image on 3 different machines because:
1/ my main desktop machine got taken down by 2 power cuts within the last 
week! Luckily they've fixed the problem now, or so they say.
2/ my laptop's hibernate mode managed to save povray despite one of those 
powercuts (because I'm using megapov's post processing I can't continue an 
unfinished render, I have to start from the beginning, but hibernate mode 
doesn't suffer that problem)... only for it to reboot itself a couple of 
days later from overheating! AAAARGH!
3/ my work PC has 2 processors (or maybe a dual core, I haven't checked but 
anyway pov can only see 50% of it until pov 3.7 gets released), so I have it 
doing the scene as 2 partial renders (with a black object blocking the 
camera's view of half the scene, for the aforementioned post-processing 
reasons). BUT... my work PC crashes intermittently for no known reason!!!

Anyway, the current situation is: I have 24 hours to go, the top-half of the 
high-res version was nearly finished on my work machine, but the bottom half 
won't be done in time. So tonight I worked some magic on the smoke effect 
and I'm using my PC at home to redo the bottom half (in about 3 hours vs 3 
days!), this is because all you see of the smoke in the bottom half is it's 
shadow, so I switched off the scattering media and turned off all the higher 
media quality settings I had.

So, provided my work PC doesn't crash, I should have a high-res version for 
the IRTC in plenty of time for the deadline :)

-- 
Tek
http://evilsuperbrain.com


"Orchid XP v2" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
news:440376fa$1@news.povray.org...
>> Now, keep that computer humming...and don't let the power go out! ;-)
>
> AAAAAARGHH!!!! >_<
>
> *runs screaming from the building*

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