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Grass in Kray with clipmap plates 16k poly, 15mins on DualXeon 3.4G at this res.

pretty slow though.

nice test. But Kray is not very quick in clip map rendering.
Each time I use trees with clips it took very long to compute...

it's because Kray will go nut's and fire way to dense fg rays in all that geometry. G is aware of it and i will work something out.

Silverlw wrote:it's because Kray will go nut's and fire way to dense fg rays in all that geometry. G is aware of it and i will work something out.

cool. ask G. to work on it soon. Thanks.

Try rendering it without irradiance caching and see what happens.

Lovely grass! Care to share the model?

jure wrote:Lovely grass! Care to share the model?

Here is the scene, textures are from maxwell material grass tutorial.

Captain Obvious wrote:Try rendering it without irradiance caching and see what happens.

It is even slower without IC.

Rendertime 6min in photonmapping on Q6600 here.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to use instances instead of clones for the copies of grass patch.

jure wrote:Rendertime 6min in photonmapping on Q6600 here.
I wonder if it would be a good idea to use instances instead of clones for the copies of grass patch.

Last time i tried, instances renders slower than real geometry.

I just rendered it in VirtualRender..
Looks quite nice IMHO in 16000x12000..

http://www2.trueart.pl/Products/Plug-In ... _12000.jpg

Johny_quick wrote:

That's got to be the most manicured lawn that I've ever seen, but at this res I think there needs to be some more varied grasses at random size and colours, maybe some small flowers and of course what about the insects