Vray Mesh export Proxy

[EricCamper]

I have about 100 Onsite trees I am trying to renderin a scene.....The scene renders in around 7 min now, which is ok....but I wondering if I can take it down a notch. If I select all the trees and right click and make them vray mesh........Proxies......Will that make the scene render faster.......Or is there antoher way to go about it.....

Thanx

Eric

[RErender]

It would likely render slower, vrmeshes save memory not time.

[EricCamper]

yup...your right......just did a test....hehe......Well...I shall look at other ways to shave time...Any suggestions.....

Thanx

Eric

[mike.edel]

do you already use geometry leaves instad of opacity mapped ones? at least with shadows geometry seems to be faster
of course the leaves should be fairly low-poly

[CXStudios]

I would combine the two forms and give it a shot. You don't want to export every tree as a proxy. Export one of each kind of tree, then replace the similar trees with instances of the main proxy.

Mike is right in that 'usually' geometry will render faster than alphas.