Renders Slow

[nhs2010]

:newtek: :vticon: when i try to render my animations, it often takes all night. this is a problem for us and i need help quick.

[jcupp]

What kind of machine are you running on? None of the stock 3DA stuff should take overnight to render on any reasonable machine (P4 or better)

[nhs2010]

Im not sure what it is,it is a school machine,but i have been told that it is a server-grade computer. All i know is that we run 5 hard drives & a brand new ati graphics card.we mainly use this computer to record auditorium shows with VT5, and to edit with speed edit.

[SBowie]

Im not sure what it is,it is a school machine,but i have been told that it is a server-grade computer. Sadly, that could be anything from a single P3 on up...

[Don Ballance]

It also depends on the scene you are rendering.
Some take alot longer than others.
What scene is it?

[nhs2010]

I am trying to render the scene with the star circles. Im unsure of the name. this is only a 6 second animation.

[nhs2010]

I have also been told by my broadcasting teacher that rendering can take awile, but come on, this is rendering one frame every 1 1/2 minutes.

[jcupp]

I just tried the Spinning Infinite Star Ring Scene on my laptop (single P4 2.8GHz) and it does indeed take about a minute and a half per frame. Just be glad it's not the old days when even on a state of the art 30MHz machine things could take hours a frame:)