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WTango

11-03-2004, 07:46 PM

Hello,
I was adding spot lights to a scene I am working on, and I noticed that with fog density set to 0.150 I still render an 800x600 scene with Maya Soft for 1:05min! Without the fog light I get 35sec! Are there any techniques to help me reduce the rendering time? I am fairly new to rendering tech and lighting, so any help, advice, or website link will be greatly appreciated.

Comp Spec:
P4 2.4Ghz
512 RAM RDRAM
2x 200GB HD
ATI Radeon 9800 XT w/ 256MB
Win Xp Pro (I hate it :)
Maya 6.0

Cheers guys,
WT.

levon

11-12-2004, 12:11 PM

http://www.icongroup.info/icongroup/Render_Farm.jpg

that should help :P

i dont use maya, but i guess the onyl way to speed up rendering time would be to turn the detail of the fog down

and i dont think you had to realy post it twice under different names

stew

11-12-2004, 12:33 PM

Are you using raytraced or mapped shadows? IME, volumetric effects such fog render faster with shadow maps.

WTango

11-13-2004, 01:35 AM

First thanks for your comments!

I think I need to use shadow maps because I was using regular fog with Maya software. any tutorials?

Thanks,
WT.

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