Hi, > I've playing around once with nice movies but memory has been a problem. = > =20 > Now I got a dual Athlon with 2Mb Ram, but didn't test it yet, I'm afraid=20 > (such server cannot stop :-).
My Dual Opteron has been rendering our scene 4 for 19 hours now. (!! & :( ). Scenes 1 and 2 take something like 1-2 hours total. Scene 4's a bit more complex. > I'm wondering if (and that's my suggestion to you Jason) it'd be a nice=20 > idea parting you movie in several takes (as I did for the example above),= > =20 > like "playing-as-a-director-in-a-real-movie". This is actually what we did. We created 4 scenes ideas and scripted them. We then did something like 'viewport 20, 20' and commented out the mpng commands. Next we played the movies through (quickly; no rendering) and saved state(s). So, we distributed the render process over 3 machines. Unfortunaly my laptop's not even strong enough to LOAD the scenes (~100,000 atoms+movie+stored scenes) let alone render them! (Intel P4 w/512 MB RAM!) Waiting my this machine render is like watching grass grow. :( I'm now relegated to a simple P4 and old 1 GHz server while it renders. :( I'm not even sure this task would have been tangible 3-5 years ago. Thanks for the suggestion! Regards, -- Jason -- Jason Vertrees BSCB Graduate Student @ UTMB, Galveston javer...@utmb.edu :: http://www.bscb.utmb.edu
