Need a break?

[DocCharly65]

Especially good on a panorama are the many possible viewing angles.

After stopping my 6000x12000 Render for messing up the Isetta I checked the ready part of the image with my panorama software. I was quite lucky that I can extract single parts and export them as an image in rectangular projection.

This one was one I liked most
(In the next iteration the old bark on the sidewalk and street will be smaller. Looks weird at the moment.

[attach=1]    a bit closer:   [attach=2]

[archonforest]

very nice one!


HEY! which redneck left the old newspaper on the street??  Man!, these people...

[Dune]

So you have this equirectangular projected image and you can extract 'normal' images out of that? That's cool. I have to check that feature in PTGui. Hope it's there as well.
And great detail, Nils.

[bobbystahr]

whoooeee, 6000x12000...I'd be a year rendering that....shows great details as Ulco said...

[DocCharly65]

It seems big but in panoramas it's an usual size... They sometimes talk about Gigapixel-images... 

3 days rendering and I had this:

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The top part ran fast but the real hard core renderpart is the bottom! I guess about 6-8 more days until it would have been finished.

[bobbystahr]

You have the patience of an Amiga user, hee hee hee

[archonforest]

You have the patience of an Amiga user, hee hee hee

YEAH AMIGA RULEZ!!!...khmmm...sorry

[DocCharly65]

Back to "(my) Silent Hill   

Getting a bit bored of all the space scenes, I tried to open and render my Silent Hill scene in TG4.

NO Chance! 
I knew with it's some 100 millions of plants instances it was overdone and taking TG3 to it's limits, but with the higher memory consumption of TG4 I had no success starting any renderjob in TG4 so far.

I went some steps back and tried to create a new village scene with new buildings I bought at CGTrader.
But I am totally missing the charme of my "good old street":

[attach=1]   [attach=2]
[attach=3]   [attach=4]

Also at the moments with most of my concentration on other scenes (the stardock) I am too lazy to work on the details. Perhaps next year... and maybe only a fast fly trough animation with a bit lower quality... 


But most of you know me a bit... giving up? A difficult concept... 
So I twiggled on the original Silent Hill and tried to insert the Space Bubble in TG3 for a (or more   ) later "Show Down Animations"

First little success: I tried to get a kind if twilight with a late afternoon sun and the bubble (two planets length far from this planet) above "the company" - or whatever it is 

Hope you like it a bit though the space bubble  should not be there (in real life) 

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[Kadri]

Nice
How much RAM do you have ? Curious. I haven't had much time to pay attention for the differences in TG4

[DocCharly65]

Only 16 GB even the "big" i7
The last one I rendered on a i7 with even only 8 GB.

But most advantage for getting it to work on TG3 is that I could give the renderjob for the animation to Pixelplow. I didn't check the last weeks, but I think they still use the TG4 alpha...

[Kadri]

I see. It is always the same. In time whatever you have it becomes not enough.
3-4 years ago i barely used my 32 RAM. Now i have to be careful not to exceed it more then i would like.

[Dune]

Yes, you have to keep running to stay level with progression 

[DocCharly65]

In the last months I was watching the RAM consumption and render speed of my PCs speed a bit but I couldn't find very big differences between 6 / 8 and 16 GB. But the processor speed of 3.4  /  3.6  / or 3.9 made differences of up to 20% per frame.

Mostly I am a kind of juggler between renderjobs: Developing scenes on the fastest. Rendering first 20-100 frames also on the fastest. If a scene works - then finishing the renderjob on a slower PC. If I want it faster - Pixelplow...

Really absolutely most trouble is the automatic update function of Windows 10! I must admit - I am greedy and stingy with effective PC usage during their uptime. And I always could cry if I want to check the first frames of a new renderjob before I leave for the office in the morning and I see the windows login screen!!! 

But this is a bit better now since I mostly check for updates before going to sleep... 

[Kadri]

Yes, you have to keep running to stay level with progression 

Yeah 20 years later if we are still here around in this forum-and in general - we will say still similar things probably 

[DocCharly65]

Yes, you have to keep running to stay level with progression 

Yeah 20 years later if we are still here around in this forum-and in general - we will say still similar things probably 

...to stay level with progression is just a barrel without ground (if it's ok to use this term) 

But I love it!