Lighting Project

tomot

Indigo indeed, and it only took 18 hours

18 hours! that's like watching paint dry Seriously, though that's not a good carbon footprint. Look at all the electricity that was used just to make a 2d light bulb, look 3d.

Are we all going insane?

remus

I dont own a car (or plan to), so that sort of cancels it out.

</twisted logic>

tomot

@remus said:

<twisted logic>

I dont own a car (or plan to), so that sort of cancels it out.

</twisted logic>

So why did it take that long? (even Maxwell does not take that long)

slow CPU?
slow rendering execution?
other?

remus

In this case I think it was a combination of slowish CPU, large output size and the single light source.

Could I ask what makes you think maxwell would be faster? I would have thought the render times would have been pretty similar really.

tomot

@remus said:

In this case I think it was a combination of slowish CPU, large output size and the single light source.

Could I ask what makes you think maxwell would be faster? I would have thought the render times would have been pretty similar really.

It used to be similar until I finally got a quad core machine.

remus

Alas i'm stuck with a mere dual core. I'm sure a render farm would fix that, though

marked001

nice job on the SSS... shade looks great.... i dont think maxwell would be any faster, personally.... depending on the settings for the SSS material on the shade..

remus

I didnt bother with sss for the shade, kept it single face thickness and used a diffuse transmitter. Just me being too lazy to model the shade with thickness, really.

marked001

haha....even better

tomot

@remus said:

Alas i'm stuck with a mere dual core. I'm sure a render farm would fix that, though

Its hard to compare resuslts, I'm just learning, and test driving V-ray for SU
It did this simple rendering in 7 min.

remus

Just a mini update, heres the real thing for comparison.

tinanne

Remus, Nice job. I like the warmth of the light. Make me want to take a nap....

Chris Fullmer

Is that a missing petal? or is it a design feature?

remus

i suppose you could call it a 'feature' Its more my dodgy workmanship really.

Chris Fullmer

oh, looking back the first render I get it now. The petals are in pairs, so there are gaps on purpose. In this photo, only one gap is visible, sort of looked like a single missing petal.

Is it stained glass? Did you slump the glass yourself?

remus

It's tissue paper that i sprayed with PVA A lot easier to work with than glass.

Chris Fullmer

This lamp is full of surprises. Quite nice, well done.

Chris