i’m using YafRay and just blender internal for rendering right now
but what are some other recommendable renering softwares…if there are any
cuz i’m really new to this and i’m still figuring this out
but when i acutally start making some models and render them nicely
i don’t want to wait like an hour just waiting for my picture to come up
oh and what are like recommended computer requirement to run blender w/o much problem at all??
when i go into sub surf lvl 4 and up it starts to slow down ALOT and i have to wait just for it to get smooth
my computer is
-intel 2 duo core 2.4 ghz
-1 GB RAM
-Nvidia 7900 GS
-80GB hard drive
if there are any suggestion for rendering softwares and my computer upgrade plz do tell me~
You shouldn’t have to use subsurf at level 4. Try selecting the object and hit set smooth in the button window. Kerkythera is a good free renderer, with a material editor, GI etc and a GUI. Indigo is a free renderer that works like Maxwell, very photoreal results, but is more command line based.
As to render times, I’m guessing it may be related to your mesh density, but seriously, get used to it. I saw someone who works for the big studios on tv recently saying “…twenty years ago, it took eight hours to render a frame and today it takes …eight hours to render a frame”, 3d always pushes the envelope of hardware restrictions, so you have to find ways to optimise and simplify things. maybe set your renders off before you go to bed ? Your computer’s way able to handle rendering etc, but if your meshes have millions of polygons it’s going to take ages to process that information before it starts rendering.
k thnx for help
so i’m guessing those finished project in the forums must have taken a quiet a while to render? since some of them look like actual objects~
Yes, some of the images take a while to render. You have to live with that, since algorithms like Yafray’s (GI) or AO and Raytracing in BI need a lot of computation. That is CG…