Fruits of many a late night

[Legendinc]

Hi Peoples,

Just wanted to share with all 18 months of effort. These are some pics of the reason I bought this program - to design my house extension.

The end result was a 23 second animated walk through that took 24 hours to render and is a 669Mb file. (not going to post that one)

Would be very interested in what people think. I still havent polished off the landscaping but it is very close to the real thing.

Regards,

[Jack Zimmer]

I'm happy to hear you got what you wanted with the program. Your work looks good and I bet your proud that you developed all aspects yourself. And yes, animations take forever and you must be very careful with lighting.

Good job.

Jack

[Allan Chesney]

Just wanted to echo Jack's thoughts - you have done a excellent job and thanks for sharing it with us.

Allan

[Doug.S]

If I'm doing the math correctly....approximately:

23 sec. in 24 hours = 1 hour render time per sec of movie frames = 30 frames/60 min = about 2 min per rendered frame/image

That seems fairly fast

Depending on the image size.... file size may be just fine as well....and could be substantially smaller if compressed with a good codec
(but always save the uncompressed as a "master") and changed to smaller output image size at some proportion ...maybe 1/2 the length/width (in pixels) and the file will shrink by a factor of 4 (or it will be 1/4 the original size...and with compression it could be 10x smaller yet)

[Jack Zimmer]

Hi Doug,

One thing to remember when rendering for a movie is that the radiosity calculation is only done once for the whole building, after that each frame has only to calculate raytrace. But raytrace calculated 'shine' and high reflectance can throw all time calculations out the door :-)

Jack

[Legendinc]

Hey all,

thanks for the comments guys I really appreciate them. 

I am in the process of getting quotes now for the work and these renders really helped the builder get an idea of what I want. 

regards,

[Robert W - "robban"]

Hey Legendinc!
Great work!
 But I wonder howe it look with the night mountain backgrond that I have made from the orignal daylight. You find a download her: http://forums.turbofloorplan.com/index.php/topic,1292.msg6283.html#msg6283



/Robert