help... I need a RenderFarm I think...

[s0real]

ok.
just downloaded the demo.
i'll post some trial images up when i've tested it out...

[paulison]

i rendered at 9000x9000 yesterday with a precalced IR map from a 1500x1500 image. Although VIZ2005 did come up with the error "cannot create bitmap", I consulted the viz help and there is a box you can tick under render settings which lets you render out large images.

anything over 10000x10000 didnt work for me though....is this a limit? if so, then i'll be looking at Natty's link. MY client wants an image 4m high at 72dpi

[s0real]

not had time to do any proper tests with genuine fractals.
work got in the way!

[DP]

you dont get something for nothing...GF is not as good as re-rendering to the correct res...you cant blow up a 5" image to A0 and expect miracle amounts of detail to magicly appear. Do it properly.

[s0real]

DP: you dont get something for nothing...GF is not as good as re-rendering to the correct res...you cant blow up a 5" image to A0 and expect miracle amounts of detail to magicly appear. Do it properly.

i think it's pretty obvious that a plugin's not going to work miracles, but if it works substantially better than the image resize in photoshop then it's probably not a bad plugin to get hold of...

when deadlines are tight it would be a great help to be able to render out a 3/4 size image and resize it rather than wait an extra couple of hours to 'do it properly'

:.s. - what's up with the 'quote' tags?

[timmatron]

:.s. - what's up with the 'quote' tags?

The only way that seems to work in this forum is to take out the =(name) in the first quote tag.

[UBIKmh]

The maximum I render is 4000 pixels either heigth or width or both when the scene is really detailed. If a client want bigger (let's say for a billboard) I 'enlarge' the image with s-spline which is probably more or less the same as this fractal plug-in. Works great and nobody ever complained.
The problem with rendering large formats is that the skies I use kind of fall apart. I use 360 spherical panorama's so when I render only a small portion of the sky is visible and you will see the film grain very soon, even when you load background pano's with a 9999 resolution width (MAX can't load more then 10.000 pixels, most irritating limit I know).


Marc

[s0real]

s-spline seems to work pretty well.
I just downloaded a demo from here: http://www.thepowerxchange.com/produ..._detailed.html
and i'm pretty impressed with the results.

well worth a look IMO.

[UBIKmh]

Forgot that they call it PhotoZoom nowadays.
Whatever the name, I worked pretty well for me and cheap too.

Marc

[arobbert]

I do images for furniture brochures and advertisements. I use GF all the time. The images have to be clear and sharp to meet the expectations of my clients (Hi end furniture). I've never had a problem as long as I render an image that's 50% of the needed size. You do have to start with a reasonable resolution and should not expect miracles. Avoid saving to jpeg format before resizing as the compression artifacts are amplified and degrade the image.