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8890 rendering

post #1 of 11
10/29/03 at 1:01pm
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hey all, i am using Form Z Radiozity 4.0.6 or something like that, anyway it is the most current Demo version. I would like to know if anyone uses the software and can give me an idea of rendering time? I do not know what to expect from the 8890 so any help would be appreciated. right now i am rendering a 25 sec clip at 24 fps and 8090 polygons, if that makes any sense to anyone! 5 hours till completion!!



ps if you use other 3d renderers could you also post some rendering times?
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post #2 of 11
10/29/03 at 6:01pm
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you guys are a lot of help. thanks



btw it is still going 5 hours turned into 7-8 hours. wtf?
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post #3 of 11
10/29/03 at 10:35pm
Thread Starter 

8890 rendering

this is a re post because no one is here to answer my question.

i want to know why it takes so friggen long to render on my computer? is this normal? could someone at least give me some idea with what i am dealing with????
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post #4 of 11
10/29/03 at 11:05pm
Could you give us a bit more info? What are you trying to render? What are you rendering with? What are you system specs? What else are you running? Just asking why "it's" taking a long time to render won't turn up much, since we have no clue what "it's" is....
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post #5 of 11
10/29/03 at 11:19pm
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i posted all that in a different thread, but no replies came in 10 hours, and soon it will be off page one of sager general. please go to this thread.

i just need simple information about rendering times people have on there 800mhz fsb/ht systems.
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post #6 of 11
10/29/03 at 11:24pm
dude, you got a serious attitude problem. You are very impatient and your questioning the wrong people. If it takes a long time it is a software issue, not hardware. I dont do any 3d rendering, but when compressing dvd's and such it takes less than an hour for the whole movie. I could give it a test if you tell me what it is you want tested. Tell me what program I need and what data I need to use to render and I will try a clip. I use a 3.2 ghz with 1 gb ram sager. Converting dvd's is much faster than it used to be on my amd 1.1 ghz, but I am not sure if that would hold true for a rednering project.
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post #7 of 11
10/29/03 at 11:28pm
I merged your two threads. There is no need for posting two threads about it. You could have just bumped your first one.
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post #8 of 11
10/29/03 at 11:29pm
Ok, so what is this Z Radiosity program? What does it do? Do you have a link?

In any case, if you're rendering a 25 sec frame, it shouldn't take that long at all. Assuming 30 fps, that's only 750 frames, and if you're running at 24 fps, it should only take 31 seconds. Something sounds wrong with that program...

I use Blender (www.blender3d.org) for my 3d rendering. It's scan-line renderer is extremely fast, and will easily render such a 25sec frame in under a minute. If I use yafray through the yable export function, I get photorealistic images with a raytracer, and even that shouldn't take more than 5 min for a 25 sec clip (granted, if you were rendering 4096x2048 images, it would take A LOT longer).

I'd say that something's definitely wrong with that program. What are you trying to render? Can you take some screenshots? Any more information would help us help you solve your problem!
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post #9 of 11
10/30/03 at 12:34am
Thread Starter 
shouldn't have gotten uptight... shoulda "bumped" my first thread. My condolences!

now then, down to business. first thanks for merging the two threads. second, You would have to know the software. Form Z is a $1300 (US) program used to design 3d models of structures, the interiors of those structures, and probably the most prevanent feature about it is the texture/surface styles available to use. When you get a big room with many different things it takes some time ~30 sec --> 5 min to render a single frame. this was at the labs on campus. i expected a quicker rendering on my lappy. when composing the animation, it was at a resolution of 640x480. to do the 600 frames took 7+ hours.

Finally, my computer was at 50 % resources throughout the entire process, and i made a note that when one side of the HT graphs in the system performance was high, the other complemented it by being low. is that normal. can i get my computer to work at 100% to do this process and save hours of my time?

i appreciate your responses, really, but waiting 10 hours for one, as many may know can be a pain in the neck. maybe you all were just at work. i don't know, it doesn't matter. peace
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post #10 of 11
10/30/03 at 1:52am

stevo9er

I dont know anything about 3d rendering sadly, but I am sure the makers "FORM Z" have an idea of how long renderings should take. Perhaps if you bought the software legitimly you can use this link http://www.formz.com/Support.html or try posting in their forums http://www.formz.com/forum/general_discussion.html

Please dont hate us for our ignorance : )
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post #11 of 11
10/30/03 at 2:09am
yeah, a 640x480 render w/ 600 frames taking 10+ hours is a little absurd. Something is definitly amiss there.

Showing only 1 processor at 100% is perfectly normal. That just means that Form Z is not HT enabled, so it only uses a single thread. Since your processor is HT enabled, it will appear that only 1/2 of your processor is being used. If there's a way to hike the number of processors up to two, it may improve the rendering time, but 10 hours is still a bit much...

But anyways, the render did work, right? It wasn't all in vain with a crashed computer at the end, was it? Checking Form Z's support may be your next best option, since we're pretty sure it's not a hardware problem... (And no, I don't think there's another member on the forums that has the expertise or the money to try that program...)

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Are you sure you need a $1300 program to do those images? I was just glancing through the gallery, and I've seen better images generated by blender and yafray (www.yafray.org), and they're free... Is this a CAD program, or is it an artistic rendering program?
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