"Bob Hughes" <bob### [at] charternet> wrote:
> Hiya Bill.
>
> Needs those windows back... and lit.
I knew somebody would say that! Lighting the windows might be a little
tricky to do well. If the windows are lit, there should be some indistinct
detail within for  realism... not an issue in daylight! I could simply make
them glow, of course, but I'm not sure it would look right. I'm open to
suggestions...

I had thought that this time of night might well be after lights-out, and
these lamps are like streetlamps.

> What's the render-time? And on what kind of computer? Is a final render
> going to get into days instead of hours or something?
The test renders are already into days! I honestly don't know what the spec
of this machine is... it's in my office, and is about four years old. It's
at least 266MHz and 256MB RAM... I think. The current version of the scene
takes over four days to render with everything switched on at 1280x1024,
but my colleague's brand-new Dell can do it within a weekend. The night
version takes longer because of all the light sources. Yeek.

I've slowed down development a bit because of this, which is good, cos I can
get more work done. And at least it makes me look forward to mondays! :)

Bill

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