really long rendering times.

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Hi

I am a bit of a newby to the world of rendering and having real trouble rendering an internal scene I have modelled in Rhino. There are quite a few light sources and much of the internal scene is corrugated metal which I am guessing are not helping with the infuriating VRAY rendering times I am facing, I have tried to reduce settings a couple of times but even so the render times are taking over a week and obviously hogging my computer’s resources which I desperately need for other things! Any advice gratefully received, I am happy to share the source file which is quite large (228MB) if someone has the time/kindness to have a look at my efforts and see how it could be improved. I must admit I am slightly baffled by all the VRAY options at the moment.

My computer is running Vista (32bit) Core 2 Duo 2.60Ghz with 4GB of RAM.

thanks in advance
Sinan

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Re: really long rendering times.

Hi,

here a standard HDRI setup for daily use:

http://www.simulacrum.de/goodies/StandardSetup.zip

Load it to your file and change the settings you need - environment or other scene specific options.

For some more informations to the most important settings you could read the starterkit thread at the tutorial forum section.

-Micha

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Re: really long rendering times.

If the metal has glossiness a high number of subdivisions could also be slowing the rendering down.

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Re: really long rendering times.

Hi Sinan,
I’m Skysurfer (Riccardo) I’m an Autorizhed Rhino Trainer and an indipendent VrayforRhino Trainer.

I would try to help you so I’m curious to see your file and the settings.
If you don’t mind, you can send it to me at the following e-mail:

info at vray.it (change “at” with “@”, of course)

Please, before sending me the file, could you save the file with the SAVESMALL option and zip it to be lighter?

Thanks
Riccardo

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Re: really long rendering times.

Hello all

Really appreciate all the help and advice, will try and them and see how I get on.

Riccardo, I have uploaded the file here, it was one of my first efforts at 3d rhino modelling and VRAY rendering so might be quite a few better ways to do things, your advice would be much appreciated.

thanks

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Re: really long rendering times.

Hi Micha

I tried to load the Visopt file you kindly sent but it says ‘failed to load options from file’ when I try to load it. Any ideas?

thanks

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Re: really long rendering times.

Hmm, the only reason I know is, that your version could be older than my VfR 1.05.27