Animation in Vray

[provise]

Hello everyone,

Can anybody tell what the average rendertime for one frame is in vray
Ihave made some interior stills and now i want to animate them,i took all the setting from the walk through animation tutorial and fooled around a bit with them but my rendertime was 9minutes per frame,i found this a bit long especially if you have to render 500 frame.

is this Normal????

Kind regards

[instinct]

9 mins too long ? That depends heavily on the type of scene you're rendering....personally i wouldnt consider 9mins long :P

Regards,
Thorsten

[sea2stars]

Unfortunately it's all relative. If you were rendering out a an inverted box on a current machine, then yeah, 9 minutes would probably be way too long. If you post an image and your settings, that might be a good start.

[Dynedain]

9 min/frame is a pretty short rendertime for a full global illumination solution.

And per/frame rendertimes vary dramatically per scene and per machine.

I've had animations render under 2min/frame and over 6 hours per frame. And 15 min on my workstation is equal to 1.5 hours on some of my render slaves. So it's all very relative.

[Da_elf]

im doing 100 frames at 1 hour right now

[provise]

thanks for the reply's, here is a preview of the interior i want to render and my settings i understand that 9min is not a long time but it would be great if someone could take a look if iam going in the right direction.

If iam using a vraymap to reflect on the lamp in the back corner and on the kitchen materials and now my rendertime bounces up to 24 min.
the carpet on the floor i a vraydisplacment.

thanks

www.provise.nl/vray/interior.jpg
www.provise.nl/vray/setting.jpg

[Neilg]

As a quick test, try taking off the catmull rom filter, and changing your AA to QMC - 1,4

And if youre pre-rendering your irradiance map and running it from file, use the normal medium one. The animation ones have blurring, if I remember rightly. This wont change the speed though - should just tidy up the lighting.

Other than that, they seem to be pretty solid settings.

[provise]

Thanks that worked!! shaved 2 min. of the rendertime. now its more workeable.

Glad to know that iam going in the right direction.

[DaForce]

Animation presets dont have blurring.. was taken out ages ago. As you can see the blur GI is no longer there in the IR rollout

[Neilg]

I assumed it just came with the 'animation' package. hm.

Whats the difference between medium animation and just medium then? I always thought that was the only difference and the 'blurring' value was handled automatically within the preset.
i'm not talking about the final by the way, still on RC2

[DaForce]

AFAIK the blurring was removed in RC3... maybe RC2.. basically if you cant see it there.. it doesnt exist.

As for the differences, well you can see the differences... AFAIK its just different settings.. there is nothing hidden going on.

Now however in FINAL 1.5 there is the new blended frames thingy to remove flickering in animation.

[Neilg]

I'm with it, the drop down covered the settings it changed, and because I dont tend to bother with those ones I didnt notice they were any different

I am very much looking forward to trying the new animation mode though.

[werticus]

im doing 500 frames at between 1 - 3 hrs depending on which slave per frame.

however in the end its working out to be 10mins a frame on average if you add all the slaves together... always need MORE power