Sir_Vuclan
09-30-2004, 04:47 AM
Hi guys,
One thing that is really hard to do with mental ray is caustics. Everything needs to be set perfectly or you get a lot of errors. And if it does work its usually pretty slow at rendering.
I just started working on this project today and I am very satisfied with the results. When I first started it took 2:00 minutes to render this scene with only 20000 photons. And things didnt look right or it might not render depending on how everything was setup Now, after finding the right settings, it takes about 1:20 and I can change things (move objects and lights, change materials) and I rarely have errors when rendering.
I have a 1.3 Ghz computer with 640Mb of ram. can anyone tell me if these are pretty good render times? Or if you have any tips that would be great to.
Heres the scene i used. 3 minutes with 500000 caustic photons(sorry, jpeg lost a lot of quality)
One thing that is really hard to do with mental ray is caustics. Everything needs to be set perfectly or you get a lot of errors. And if it does work its usually pretty slow at rendering.
I just started working on this project today and I am very satisfied with the results. When I first started it took 2:00 minutes to render this scene with only 20000 photons. And things didnt look right or it might not render depending on how everything was setup Now, after finding the right settings, it takes about 1:20 and I can change things (move objects and lights, change materials) and I rarely have errors when rendering.
I have a 1.3 Ghz computer with 640Mb of ram. can anyone tell me if these are pretty good render times? Or if you have any tips that would be great to.
Heres the scene i used. 3 minutes with 500000 caustic photons(sorry, jpeg lost a lot of quality)