Ancient Valley (animation)

Oshyan · July 01, 2011, 01:04:42 PM

That's quite a nice video! Unfortunately even on Vimeo the compression ruins it. What compression codec did you use? njeneb's suggestion of h.264 is a good one.

- Oshyan

Mor · July 01, 2011, 01:36:09 PM

I converted the video from uncompressed avi to mp4.

Seth · July 05, 2011, 06:37:10 AM

I really like the flight inside the forest
Good job

Tangled-Universe · July 05, 2011, 08:00:02 AM

Yes this is a nice animation

Still the same rendersettings and rendertime?
Looking at this I get itchy as well to render an animation

Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin

Henry Blewer · July 05, 2011, 08:28:36 AM

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 05, 2011, 08:00:02 AM
Yes this is a nice animation
Still the same rendersettings and rendertime?
Looking at this I get itchy as well to render an animation Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin

Me to. I don't think my old computer would finish rendering before Terragen 4.4 is released. It's just too slow...

Matt · July 05, 2011, 10:32:07 AM

Quote from: njeneb on July 05, 2011, 08:28:36 AM
Me to. I don't think my old computer would finish rendering before Terragen 4.4 is released. It's just too slow...

Stop buying brand new video cards and put (some of) the money on a non-ancient CPU/mobo instead!

otakar · July 05, 2011, 10:52:38 AM

Really nice animation. Maybe I'd cut out that banking towards the end over the lake. How long did this take to render? It's getting close to those old TG .9 animations I remember (with much better scene quality of course). Too bad the required hardware is fairly high end.

Tangled-Universe · July 05, 2011, 11:28:58 AM

Quote from: Matt on July 05, 2011, 10:32:07 AM
Quote from: njeneb on July 05, 2011, 08:28:36 AM
Me to. I don't think my old computer would finish rendering before Terragen 4.4 is released. It's just too slow...

Stop buying brand new video cards and put (some of) the money on a non-ancient CPU/mobo instead!

Oh yeah how much I second this

I'm sooooo happy with my i7-2600K...running 4.4GHz now, renders like a blaze!
(took me a long time to save money though, I can understand it's not easy to "just" by new stuff)

Henry Blewer · July 05, 2011, 02:24:22 PM

Next purchase I7 2600k. I have the case, mobo, DVD burner now.
Or maybe a Sinclair 1000.

Jonathan · July 05, 2011, 03:11:46 PM

I thought that was superb. Just upgraded to Deep Edition and haven't yet played with animation but you have inspired me!

Mor · July 06, 2011, 01:16:16 AM

Thanks!

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 05, 2011, 08:00:02 AM
Yes this is a nice animation
Still the same rendersettings and rendertime?
Looking at this I get itchy as well to render an animation Thanks!

Cheers,
Martin

Rendersettings were the same except detail was increased to 0.7. Rendertime was 6-12min per frame. I also used two instances of TG2 for rendering, 4 cores per instance.

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 05, 2011, 11:28:58 AM
Quote from: Matt on July 05, 2011, 10:32:07 AM
Quote from: njeneb on July 05, 2011, 08:28:36 AM
Me to. I don't think my old computer would finish rendering before Terragen 4.4 is released. It's just too slow...

Stop buying brand new video cards and put (some of) the money on a non-ancient CPU/mobo instead!

Oh yeah how much I second this I'm sooooo happy with my i7-2600K...running 4.4GHz now, renders like a blaze!
(took me a long time to save money though, I can understand it's not easy to "just" by new stuff)

17-2600k is definitely worth every cent. My old system would have rendered this animation till the end of the year

Btw. anyone noticed the skulls on a stone in the forest?