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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: :) on September 07, 2011, 09:51:32 PM

Title: resolution
Post by: :) on September 07, 2011, 09:51:32 PM
what is the highest resolution terra can produce in good time?
Title: Re: resolution
Post by: cyphyr on September 08, 2011, 05:49:37 AM
Practically speaking the only limits are down to your hardware.  If your using the 64bit version on a suitable platform and have enough ram you could render some truly enormous images. At a certain point you may wish to start rendering in crops and stitching them together.
:)
Richard
Title: Re: resolution
Post by: FrankB on September 08, 2011, 02:57:27 PM
I've made a 6k resolution render with just 8GB RAM once. I don't remember the rendertime, but it was under a day, with quite high quality settings and a relatively complex scene.

Generally it's impossible to say how long a render takes - it all depends on the complexity of the scene and a lot on the chosen quality settings.
With very large images, that are meant for print, you don't need to use very high quality settings, as the viewer will probably stand a meter or more away from the image.