Nobody really answered my questions last time. I just added some more
brightness to the lights (maybe too much now) and reduce the area lights
from 3,3 to 2,2 and removed the normal from my stone. Much faster
rendering this time. About 3 hours less. That's good. Or, in spanish
"algo es algo, peor es nada".

Enjoy. Comment. Read my post in .general. Thanks.

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I like it!
Would look incer if it was rendered a tad larger :)

Greg

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I'm saving that for the final image. That should be like 5 days of
rendering. Maybe I'll do an animation at 160x120 or something.

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5 days,  madness.  22 hours is all I can do then I get fed up. You must 
be mister staminer.

Cheers
Steve
 

Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> I'm saving that for the final image. That should be like 5 days of
> rendering. Maybe I'll do an animation at 160x120 or something.

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Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> Nobody really answered my questions last time. I just added some more brightness to
the lights
> (maybe too much now) and reduce the area lights from 3,3 to 2,2 and removed the
normal from my
> stone. Much faster rendering this time. About 3 hours less. That's good. Or, in
spanish "algo es
> algo, peor es nada".
> 
> Enjoy. Comment. Read my post in .general. Thanks.
> 
> [Image]

So that's what it's supposed to look like. Ah !

This is the first one that I have been able to see it with any clarity.
I get in the habit sometimes too of making my scenes dark. It usualy
happens when working into the early morning hours. The glare from
the monitor is burning into the yellowed, shot through with blood,
super sensitive eyes, weary from squinting into the screen for ten
hours too many, and the need to lower the over all brightness of the
image just sort of happens rather than being planned. You think to
yourself so what if they have to turn the lights off in the room when
viewing the image. That's the way it was when it was being created.


 Oh by the way nice Pic.


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Ken Tyler

mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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Steve wrote:
> 
> 5 days,  madness.  22 hours is all I can do then I get fed up. You must
> be mister staminer.
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> 
> 
> Anthony Bennett wrote:
> >
> > I'm saving that for the final image. That should be like 5 days of
> > rendering. Maybe I'll do an animation at 160x120 or something.

I've got you both beat. "The Explorer" (on my web site) took 32 days(!)
to render at the final resolution (3150x2000 I think). 

I could probably cut that down quite a bit by using the Galaxy inc file,
but I dont have time now.

-Ed

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Edward Wedig
aka Doc Brown
Graphic Artist, 3D Designer, Gamemaster, Nice Guy
http://www.netwalk.com/~docbrown

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ditch the area lights, and add a few wel placed regular ones, if you 
want a bit of a diffues look, use the same method as photography, stick 
some bright lights near some foil umbrellas / screens etc

Rick
    Anthony Bennett wrote in message 
<36E729E8.7862EA9D@panama.phoenix.net>...
    Nobody really answered my questions last time. I just added some 
more brightness to the lights (maybe too much now) and reduce the area 
lights from 3,3 to 2,2 and removed the normal from my stone. Much faster 
rendering this time. About 3 hours less. That's good. Or, in spanish 
"algo es algo, peor es nada". 
    Enjoy. Comment. Read my post in .general. Thanks.

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Edward Wedig schrieb in Nachricht <36E755D2.E514ED17@kreber.com>...
>Steve wrote:

>I've got you both beat. "The Explorer" (on my web site) took 32 days(!)
>to render at the final resolution (3150x2000 I think).
>
Gilles Tran mentions on his web page, that one of his pictures took almost 6
months (!) to render on a 200MHz Pentium. He even had to borrow a few other
Pentiums later on to get it done in time! The picture was "Cubicle workers"
IIRC (http://www.mediaport.net/Artichaud/Tran/gtran.en.html).

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Rudy Velthuis

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I'm glad you all like the new version. I will turn the lights down a bit. I need for
someone to look at the code and tell me if it can be modified for a faster render,
with loss of the look it has. I will probably entertain Mr. Tyler with this. =)

I didn't understand what the guy in the last message wanted me to do. Something about
putting umbrellas over my torches doesn't make me happy.

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Anthony,

I haven't been able to view your other postings do to the darkness of
the images.  This one has good contrast.  I like it.  The dungeon looks
like it could be part of a pretty cool Quake level.

Tony

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