Hiya!
I been doing 3D modeling for my car designes, and it came to rendering a 360* spin... Ellapsed Time: 22:51....Remaining Time: 12:33(and thats hh:mm btw! on 2.8GHz HT P4). So i wondered if thers someone who has some serious proccessing power out there who cud give me a hand, maybe u got a nice lil cluster sitting in the next room :wink: ? All can offer is an exclusive preview of the automotive industry to come :D
So yeah ... PM me if u can help me out!
Many Thanx :)

umm Adaline, I think you'll find that rendering is quite a fair bit more controlled by your graphics card... how many frames have you got and what resolution you making the video?

I know some of the renders I've done in 3D Studio max have taken a LOOOOOONG time, but never that many hours! :o

what software you working in? whats your graphics card?

Porcessing power? Sounds like you need a new mother boar.

Originally posted by Phanerothyme
Porcessing power? Sounds like you need a new mother boar.

lolol! I feel bad for editing the title now ;)

Originally posted by Siân
lolol! I feel bad for editing the title now ;)
Thanx Siankov hun :)

Originally posted by xafier
How many frames have you got and what resolution you making the video?

I know some of the renders I've done in 3D Studio max have taken a LOOOOOONG time, but never that many hours! :o

what software you working in? whats your graphics card?
360 frames (as u wud expect ;) ), 640x480, Its 3dsmax 7, using Vray wiv GI, displasment maps .... and alot of other stuff

Agent X to MI5....

RUM do NOT have the computer processing power needed to control robot simulations of the British Cabinet. We only need fear a robotic simulation of John Prescott... :)

Have you contacted any of teh animation outfits in the CIQ and ask if they would run the jobs for you overnight?

Joe

I probably have enough processing power for you, but unless what your rendering has some form of cli base client it wont be much use (FreeBSD)

Joel

it isnt all down to the processor.. ram and graphic cards are important too. 2.8ghz should be enough.

I used to take all my animations to college and render them there as their computers are much faster than mine.

To be fair, if you're rendering a video with 3DSM, it will take ages, even on SHU's PCs, a 12 second clip (that was the assignment) rendering took 40 minutes, oh yeh.

I do not know why i takes that long, I understand why, but even on powerful PCs it still takes a lengthy period of time.

It's not really the end of the world - a day or more processing time is commonplace with the engineering simulation stuff at the uni. We ended up building our own cluster rather than use their "supercomputer", and with 8 nodes would still average a day or two for CFD work. A bit annoying when you can't view the results until the end and find you've made a stupid mistake! :)

How come there's 360 frames by the way? Are you doing a slow pan-around over quite a few seconds?

(were you planning to send people a copy of 3DS to run it on?? :))

Thanx for all the replyies guys!
It takes a while to render with a SSS system like vray, mine max out at about 9minutes per frame as i dont have alot of detail in, some peoples work takes 15+, i once tried to render a small demo scene fro Brazil RS....3hours! for a single frame.
The 360* spin finished after 33 hours, and i noticed a lil mistake :rant: on the other side if the car!

Originally posted by rich951

How come there's 360 frames by the way? Are you doing a slow pan-around over quite a few seconds?

(were you planning to send people a copy of 3DS to run it on?? :))
Just thought it be good to have a frame per each degree of rotation :D , the whole spin is 12 seconds long.
Nah wernt gona send 3ds to anyone, was hoping someone had a proper farm with distributed rendering system runing but i guess thats a way out of shot in Sheffield lol :D

There it is :D : click me (http://img7.echo.cx/my.php?image=shots4az.jpg)
its a "VAL" version of Lada 2106

Erm rendering a scene has sod all to do with the graphics card - the graphics card is used to render viewports and anything else sent to the screen. Scenes are rendered to file and it's done by software i.e. the CPU. It doesn't go near the graphics card. You actually think they stick a top of the range graphics card in every node in a rendering farm? :rolleyes:

I read some intensive Matrix (movie) graphics were renderd on 36 Dell dual core pentium twins running FreeBSD and that took about 3-4 days. I belive they used MentalRay system which is great but muuuuuch more trickey to set up, it does tho come bundeled as standard with most 3D packages such as 3DS Max and Maya.
I re-rendered the animation, without GI (Global Illumination) it took somwhe around 7-8 hours, frames going at about 1.5-2 minutes each. Finished product is a ~11MB QuickTime movie, i would gladly show it to ya guys but i wud need some help with hosting as my site dont have much bandwidth. Ooooo it look so damn sexy :D if i say so myself.

adaline's MOV file is now hosted here (http://www.photorich.co.uk/2106-5.mov). It's just under 11 MB in size...

I've also taken the liberty of uploading xvid (http://www.photorich.co.uk/2106-5_xvid.avi) and divx (http://www.photorich.co.uk/2106-5_divx.avi) versions which are each about 1MB - but not as high quality. Consider them a taster ;)

enjoy! :)

Thank you Rich! top job :thumbsup: