Kerkythea Render Speed

milkybars87

Good Evening, please could anyone help with me with my kerkythea render, I have a deadline on wednesday and worried my renders won't be complete by then. I am farly new to kerkythea, I used it for a bit in my degree in 2010 but havent used it since and therefore I am a bit rusty. I am fairly confident with the material editor and the importing and exporting settings, it's the render settings that seem to be my weakest link.

I am trying to render a exterior street scene which I have imported from skecthup. I have used the following materials, car paint, basic glass, grass, concrete, basic plastic and plaster. There isn't to many complicated materials in my model. My render so far has taken 37hours to complete around 50% of the ray tracing and I still have many other visuals to render.

I am using the custom settings as I am not confident on what the others may do and seem to be getting a good quality render in the preview box. I do understand that the quality will decrease the quicker the render is, but surely there must be some way of doing the render quicker without sacrificing too much on the quality.

Please could anyone give me any insight on any render settings I should try? and help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards

tridem

exterior, daylight = preset 17. path tracing progressive

irwanwr

there is a Kerkythea Forum if you'd like more direct interactive inquiries about Kerkythea.

irwanwr

@tridem said:

exterior, daylight = preset 17. path tracing progressive

is there a table for those kind of certain prefered rendering recommendation?
would you tell me, please?

tridem

I recommend you to read the "Getting Started" Manual, available at kerkythea download pages.
At almost the end of the guide you'll find a reference table for render settings

irwanwr

@tridem said:

I recommend you to read the "Getting Started" Manual, available at kerkythea download pages.
At almost the end of the guide you'll find a reference table for render settings

wah, i have that "Getting Started" manual downloaded here. haven't read it to the end of the page though. newb sorry for bothering you. i hope you wouldn't mind if we keep asking questions to you later.

thank you Luca

tridem

feel free to keep asking... I'll feel free to stop answering

irwanwr

@tridem said:

feel free to keep asking... I'll feel free to stop answering

bigstick

Should this be in the 'Plugins' section?