Re: Distributed Rendering 2003-12-01 - By pmiinalainen
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Yes, i know exactly what you mean. :-(
For animations, try turning the refraction/reflection depth down and
use all the ray-traced features sparingly. Turn off global
illumination, indirect lighting and skylights. Use softshadows.
Design your story, scene and characters the way that they look good
with these settings (=non-photorealistic). That is the only realistic
way to do animation...
non-realistic images = realisctic rendering times
You can however fake things by using time to prepare good texture
maps etc. Personally, i wouldn't try to use best rendering quality
that carrara produces even in still images. Some GI/indirect lighting
test i have done, took between 5 minutes to 3 hours to render. At 3
hours per frame, that would mean 75 hours of rendering for every 1
second of completed animation :-( I think that even 5 minutes per
frame is undoable in longer animations.
petteri
--- In Carrara@(protected), "unadavey" <unadavey@(protected)> wrote:
> As a complete novice with animation and rendering, I went into
shock
> the first time I rendered an animation - it took 17 hours. I don't
> have the highest spec pc in the world, but it's above average. It
> was instantly apparent that if I wanted to do any more animation, I
> needed a separate machine for rendering, and since I can't afford
> another machine at the moment I just gave up on animating :D
>
> I'm not expressing myself well here, I'm trying to say that it's so
> self-evident that setup and rendering can't be done on the same
> machine that the only logical approach is to have the rendering
part
> of the application as a separate bit that can be installed either
on
> the main computer, or on a different computer, with the licensing
> agreement recognizing the realities of the situation. Who can
afford
> to have their main computer tied up for hours and hours at a time?
> Mr. Nobody, that's who.........rotfl
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