Tropic

Author: 3dh8er Posted: Nov 06, 2009 Image Resolution (px): 1200x645 Image Size: 190.02 kB	Software: Autodesk 3ds Max Design, Autodesk Maya Category: Nature, Reality
Description: Here is my latest 3D work,all objects are 3D rendered in mental ray.Some info: 4 month of work,more than 30 million polygons+displacement,SSS effects on plants+glossy effects(reflection/refraction),about 60 hours render time on Quad core 3,6. Tags:

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Posted by 3dh8er on Nov 09, 2009 at 04:49 AM

Tnanx for comments! 2 RROCHS : I don't really believe that maya and MR is so faster than max.I know it's true that mr renders a lot quicker,I saw that one guy rendered similar scene with pretty much the same polycount and render settings and it took 3 hours to render.Actually I don't know which PC he has and so on or maybe I used higher settings than needed but I don't think that such a shot can take less tan 3 hours!The main reason for my render is took so long is memory ,I have only 4 gigs and BSP 2 couse errors in large scenes in my max 2009 and MR!So I used BSP1 and all the objects were loaded in memory and didn't unload unesed voxels such in BSP2 and that's the main reason of long render time(great part of this render time is loading proxies from HDD and it's pretty slow even with my RAID hdd),Also there is a lot of SSS and trace depth for refraction is set to 11 just for leaves to look right(are not black).

	Posted by RROCHS on Nov 08, 2009 at 08:00 PM
If Rendered in maya this shot should of taken no more than 20 minutes to render on a quad core 3.6. Setting up your materials to not over calculate is key to taking this from a still to a video.... Great work I just want you to not think 30 million polygons has to take so long to render.

	Posted by Jared_Radtke on Nov 07, 2009 at 03:18 PM
Very well done! The thatched roof and building look slightly flat/stuck in to the scene. I think a minor darkening of the shadows in post would do it justice. Great work on the plant shaders though!

	Posted by MattN on Nov 07, 2009 at 07:17 AM
Very impressive, considering it's all geometry!

	Posted by RedCobra on Nov 07, 2009 at 04:35 AM
BEAUTIFUL IMAGE AND WORK!!! keep it up!!