Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> [...]
> - Render time at 1200*1600 takes 6 hours and 600 MB of RAM (P4, 1.7Gz, 1Gb
> RAM)

You are really lucky.  I'm currently at 3 days, 7 hours for 800x600... ;-)

It's impressive as usual.  I am looking forward to the detail views.

> [...]
> - The hardest part was to create the backlit leaves for the main tree. For
> this I had to make "fleshy" leaves and fill them with scattering media. I
> wish I could have done it on all the plants, but either I'll wait for faster
> machines or find a better solution for backlit translucent material. Some of
> the flowers were double_illuminated.

It looks quite good for a view facing the sun, i know this can be really
hard.  Anyway i suppose a larger render will reveal some more problems in
that concern.

> [...]
> - Regrets : the lighting. I had a lot of trouble with it, as the original
> image
> is not very gamma-tolerant : it looked ugly on low-gamma monitors and much
> too dark on others. I had to find a middle way so I tweaked the tones in
> post-process and some colors were lost (and there's some extra graininess
> too). I hope it looks right on your PC or Mac.

It looks all right here.  Recently i have been rendering a lot of scenes
with 16 bit output and adjusting things afterwards, there is no quality
loss compared to the direct gamma corrected render this way.

One critique: the disturbance in the water resulting in a blur of the
reflection is strangely patterned, there seem to be very abrupt changes
from flat to disturbed surface.

Christoph

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