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[michalis]

But 3-5 hours isn’t too fast??

Not at all, its very slow actually… hey tmz, learn some BI, nodes etc. Not as good as lux is but a five min renderer.

[DDD]

I think he can get it looking as good as lux, i dont see anything special to lux, in this scene that blender cant do.

[michalis]

@DDD
BI render will be better most probably IMO.

[Viator]

@tmz

Thanks for your comments!

Viator, I don’t believe that my scene has something wrong because lux is slow in all of my scenes. The problem probably is the render settings? I don’t know how to optimize lux for each of my scenes yet. I am going to ask some questions at luxrender.net because I want to understand lux better and I want to gain some speed.
But 3-5 hours isn’t too fast?? I have to see this to believe it. Anyway thanks for the information I will do some research!

I really recommend joining the luxrender.net forum and discuss scene setup, materials, integrator settings etc there - I think you’ll get lots of useful feedback and find your rendertimes getting much much better. As for this particular scene, I must say that BI might actually be sufficient as there is not that much complex light-interaction going on.

[tmz]

After some testing with smoke and nodes…

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[tmz]

@michalis

Not at all, its very slow actually… hey tmz, learn some BI, nodes etc. Not as good as lux is but a five min renderer.

For lux 3-5 hours is super fast. :yes:

[DDD]

Hmm yeah , the smoke needs to be a better shape, i do like the coloring of it.
Do the glow and the green lines, and add some more. If you need help with the glow effect, i have made a tutorial on it: http://vimeo.com/13322805 however use this method in combining it with the car: http://vimeo.com/13508778(you probably dont need to use the glare node for your glow)