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[Henry Blewer]

New render is coming along. A couple more days should do it. The sky is nearly finished, looks very wild. I have only seen the surface in quick renders, but I was happy with it. The reason it's taking so long is I set the AA at 7, and GI at 2 and 4, with 1920 x 1080 resolution. This is a lot to ask of a single thread to render.

[Oshyan]

Another time saver: don't use GI Surface Details. I've done some recent tests and the difference is *barely* discernible in the vast majority of scenes. I don't think this is a good example of a scene which might benefit from it either. And of course it *dramatically* increases render time, like a factor of 2 or more in many cases.

- Oshyan

[Henry Blewer]

After 60+ hours on a render, I had T2 hangup. I ran out of swap space. Here is the tgout from the temp directory.

I will try rendering it again when the ram I ordered arrives, with out so much stuff turned on.

[Gannaingh]

Too bad about TG2 hanging up on you, from the look of that low quality render the full view would have been pretty neat looking.

[Henry Blewer]

I think the memory should ship today. There are some changes I want to make, and would have; but the render had taken so long to reach the point where they were noticeable I could not bare to stop it. I will give it another try soon.

[Henry Blewer]

Here is a WIP. Baawld Mountain. I did not use GI details as Oshyan suggested. Render detail 0.85, supersample prepass, and AA 4. I need more populations and to work the fake stones some more.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/4009676514_c590cd7e72_o.png

[aymenk2003]

That one has the sense of scale ... good image you have done here njeneb...

NKAID...

[littlecannon]

Nice POV... this has loads of potential.
Simon.