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Getting things done quick!
Ouch. Okay I just started rendering this very large scene. I have a scene from Dosch Design, which itself renders quickly. I also have a human model from Poser (thanks Dave) with a reflective glass texture. Took fooooorever to render one frame (13 minutes). And frankly didn’t look too great.
Has anyone used the multipass or Compositing Project File to efficiently render files that are easy to manipulate in AE? If so what settings were checked?
Any other thoughts in general to cut down on wasted tweaking time?Thanks,
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Well, if you want real glass, you need real reflections and refractions. Not all the compositing tricks in the world can circumvent that mathematical and physical principle. You can only try to take down the number of recursions and reduce the antialiasing settings as well las probably get rid of lights that use area shadows, but that’s pretty much it. There’s no general recipe for this type of stuff, so ask yourself if you really need all the fancies. Do you really notice refractions? Can the reflections not be faked by using the environment parameter? Do you need shadows, caustics, scene motion blur, DOF or whatever features you may be using? If you can answer a few of those questions in your favor and get rid of those features because they are not noticeable, than it will go a great length toward making things more speedy. If not, then you will have to accept the long render times or buy a faster renderer (finalRender or soon VRay) ;O)
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