There was a silent bidder overnight, gennellmen, who took the Nehg' In-Ska' lot for 2 hours.
The correct answer was: 2 hours to the nearest hour(1h 45m render time.)
I knew people would assume that the render times for such a scene must be sky high.
You can really coax TG2(albeit my limited free version) to perform things much quicker than some of the preposterous render times I've seen reported.
There are only 36 atmosphere samples.
The top cirrus layer is 2D - Number of samples = 9 - no acceleration.
The mid cirrus layer is 3D - Number of samples = 31 - conservative acceleration.
The low cumulus layer is 3D - Number of samples = 58 - no acceleration.
Enviro-light settings are defaults with Final GI detail = 1/1 supersampled
0.75 render detail/AA = 3.
The 'sun glow amount/glow power' sliders are the ones doing all the work here. The two 3D layers use a ridiculous amount of glow, well beyond the slider limits of '4'. These ones go to 25 with only slightly different 'glow power' levels than the defaults of 0.75.
Nothing is changed in my atmosphere parameters and I've purposely put the sample rate low. I think it could probably stretch to 24-28 samples without much decrease in quality.
And, the Sun is 2° below the horizon with a strength of 15.
I see some examples of clouds/atmospheres and such out there with shocking sample levels I'd never dream of using, you're all braver than me with TG!
This obviously isn't up to any standards of production quality or anything but, for an afternoons fiddling and a couple of hours(not even
) to render that fiddling, it's really great to hear guesses of between 18 and 48 hours!
And I haven't even
started with clouds in TG yet, I never had the means, an ill pc has stopped me playing with anything but basic tg2 clouds for too long! No more! No more, I say! See you in a month! ...
To visit
Nehg' In-Ska', that quaint little Gàidhlig island off the coast of Scotland where this picture was taken, please follow the directions clearly signposted on your journey to the bottom of this thread. You can't miss it, when you come to the big TESCO's it's right past the carpark, to your left. There's usually a guy selling the Big Issue there.
Don't talk to him!