Quote from: RArcher on March 27, 2008, 09:48:33 AM
little update after 40 hours here is the top portion (captured with a print screen).
It is looking far far better than the previous render, hopefully the rest looks as good when finished in another 60 hours or so (baring any crashes). I created a new texture/leaf/opacity image and bumped the translucency up to 2 for all the leaves.
Martin: Thanks for posting those images in the other thread, they look very good. I will have to do some more experiments with the bark for a future project.
Further updates to come when finished.
This is looking pretty good so far but I'm thinking if this area took 40 hours and I'm assuming this is the full size? It looks like maybe a 1/3 of the image, right? That means the remaining 2/3's will take approximately 80 more hours (5 days for the entire image, IF it doesn't crash?)
Don't get me wrong, if you enjoy what you are doing then by all means, enjoy. However when and if it finishes rendering and you want to print it for preservation sake what size print could you get from it? I think a 5x7 is about it? 5 days for a 5x7 print to me just isn't practical.
I'm not trying to Burst your Bubble I'm just trying to look at in a realistic and practical way.
Nothing against you or your work, like I said it's looking good. My point is about TG for my personal use. Even if I see a 10% increase in render speed when the final comes out TG is still pretty much useless to me. It's sad because I do enjoy and have been working with TG, the Old and the New for quite some time (roughly 8 years).
Have fun and good luck