What are some external renderers that you guys would recommend? So far i have found indigo but it says it takes 2-4 hours for a simple seen and even longer for complex ones, i have also found POVray, but have yet to try it.
2-4 hours sounds totally off the mark - and its "scene"
But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
Kllrnohj wrote:
2-4 hours sounds totally off the mark - and its "scene"
But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
a new CPU sounds totally off the mark - and it's "buy" But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
KermMartian wrote:
a new CPU sounds totally off the mark - and it's "buy"
Psh, my CPU renders scenes in like 40 seconds, and raytracing is done on the CPU - so how is that "off the mark"?
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
a new CPU sounds totally off the mark - and it's "buy"
Psh, my CPU renders scenes in like 40 seconds, and raytracing is done on the CPU - so how is that "off the mark"?
KermMartian wrote:
If you don't have decent speed/quantity of RAM and a swift FSB, you're not going to do that well even on a good CPU.
Only if it is Intel - if it is AMD the FSB hasn't changed in years
Besides, as long as your RAM doesn't bottom out and you aren't using the page file, that won't be nearly as much of a limiting factor as CPU speed will.
I was more pointing out your grammatical mistake, which was especially ironic considering the full contents of your post.
KermMartian wrote:
I was more pointing out your grammatical mistake, which was especially ironic considering the full contents of your post.
Yes, I know. I was more trying to draw attention away from that
Kllrnohj wrote:
KermMartian wrote:
I was more pointing out your grammatical mistake, which was especially ironic considering the full contents of your post.
Yes, I know. I was more trying to draw attention away from that
Yeah sure. I found something called poseray that works really well, and is supposed to go along with POVray so i am going to try them out on an object and see what i can come up with.
lafferjm wrote:
Yeah sure. I found something called poseray that works really well, and is supposed to go along with POVray so i am going to try them out on an object and see what i can come up with.
Excellent, let us know how it works out. What is PoseRay exactly? Figure renderer?
It basically allows you to set the materials and lighting for use with the POVray renderer. Of course it also has its own renderer included.
One other program i have found is ani2pov which converts .an8 to .pov files so i can also try out POVray by itself at sime time.
One other program i have found is ani2pov which converts .an8 to .pov files so i can also try out POVray by itself at sime time.
Kllrnohj wrote:
2-4 hours sounds totally off the mark - and its "scene"
But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
But thats not the point, you don't judge a raytrace renderer by its speed, but by its quality. Most will be similar in speed, and similar in quality, so you are just going to have to suck it up and wait. Or by a new CPU, your call.
The reason it takes so long is because it is an unbiased one (progressive). It gets better over time, but is ultra realistic and does not take shortcuts like biased ones do (global illumination etc.)
It is in the same camp as fry renderer and maxwell renderer. Here is its gallery =) (the amazing thing is it is developed by 1 guys =O )
http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_gallery2&Itemid=26
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
KermMartian wrote:
lafferjm wrote:
Yeah sure. I found something called poseray that works really well, and is supposed to go along with POVray so i am going to try them out on an object and see what i can come up with.
Excellent, let us know how it works out. What is PoseRay exactly? Figure renderer?Here is one sample render using the poseray/povray combo:
and here is one using a modellers internal renderer:
right now i am working on learning the basics of the povray renderer that way i don't have to go through so many steps, and will have more freedom in what i do.
That has REALLY bad aliasing around the edges in the second one. It probably has an option in the renderer 
I like the other though
I like the other though
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