"Oh no, not another half-baked two-minute render impulsively flung together on an immature whim!" :'(
"It's what I do" :D
"Ok, then; if you must." ::)
The Ram Jet model was created by Anders Lejczak (www.colacola.se). The gear thingy in the background I created using XenoDream. The spiky plant is an Xfrog model.
John
Very nice surfacing for a two-minute render. And I love the sandstorm.
Two minute render... I have been rendering 60 hours to get three bucket rows almost done. Then Microsoft sends an update... I was able to save the image this time. I'll render the rest in crops.
I really like the dust. The gear-thingy is cool also. I really enjoy your renders. There is no telling what may come from that poetic head of yours. ;D
ARRGGG!!! >:( >:( >:(
i know how that is.. i bring the computer out of the blank screen saver and find myself staring at the win7 login screen.
it happens from time to time for me.. annoying
Quote from: njeneb on August 25, 2010, 08:25:44 AM
I have been rendering 60 hours to get three bucket rows almost done. Then Microsoft sends an update...
impressive for a 2 min. render
i like it.
Sorry about the bitching John. :-[
Quote from: njeneb on August 25, 2010, 09:37:06 AM
Sorry about the bitching John. :-[
It's good to have a bitch every now and again. ;D
John
Frozen action! Very nice.
lots of great detailing here, John...I too like this snapshot!
Like this a lot ...but, two minutes? Really?
What detail and AA did you render this at to get it done in 2 minutes? :) Or maybe your computer is fast...
Quote from: choronr on August 25, 2010, 04:17:00 PM
...but, two minutes? Really?
Quote from: jbest on August 25, 2010, 09:42:01 PM
What detail and AA did you render this at to get it done in 2 minutes? :) Or maybe your computer is fast...
Shouldn't be taken too literally - bag of salt will come in handy even - you guys know how facetious/disingenuous I can be at times - all for the sake of the literary effect - was rather expressing a self consciousness that while artists here can spend weeks slaving over a hot workstation painstakingly developing an honourable and worthy scene from concept to polished result, I seem to be churning out "half-baked" efforts faster than Fred can shred incriminating evidence - having said thaaaat, this scene was over'n-done-with from misconception to final bodging in six or seven slapdash hours (including downloading the afterthoughtof ramjet from bazze's site and two 'n a bit hrs rendertime). Detail 0.9, AA 8 (AA was at a relative high of 8 'cos I didn't use Ray Trace Objects 'cos RTO seems to blurout texture detail on my XenoDream meshes).
John
A fine and intruiging image
Hey Henry. Afters years of M$ trashing my renders every time they burped out an update, I finally wised up and set updates too "notify" not automatic install. Windows 7 and Norton always yell at me about this setting, but no more terminated renders!
The Ms Update is set to notify. If it happens again, I'll set it to no updates. I get the download update newsletter anyway. I'll go get them by hand.
Don't let notify burn you. After so many hours, Microsoft thinks your machine is not attended; then goes ahead and does it automatically.
I've gone to 'notify' since I had an experience with a crashed render. All my automatic run stuff is noted on a sticky for the deastop with the daytime hours noted so I can start my renders at an appropriate time.
Many of you do not have a P4. This really only has one processor core. It can run many threads at once, but a heavy CPU use program like T2? It's not quite able to handle the image sizes I choose.
When I start a large image, I plan on two or three days for an image to finish. Microsoft thinks that by not responding to the download notification within a few hours, it's okay to just install and reboot.
Just switch off the internet connection when rendering. I always work offline, and ones in a while switch to online and do stuff that needs to be done.
I am usually online with someone. Thank god I don't own a cell phone. I would be texting constantly.
Nice, John! Sometimes, the quickies are the best. You can, like you say, slave for weeks sometimes, tweaking and fiddling and not get as nice results, if any at all. It's good to just run with an idea and batter it out.
There's a great overall feel to this image. :)
LOL... agrees ...nice image. WOW - Thread jacking at it's worst. ::)
Yea, I have to start remembering that this is not just a chat area. Sorry.