Howie's Maze. Usage Tips? Read me?
Greetings. Just installed Howie Farkes' "Maze."
Can anyone point me to the read me?
As I have a small sd drive for my C drive, I installed on another drive rather than my directory with my Carrara files.
I have added the Maze to my Scenes in the browser section.
I get one icon that says "Hedge Maze 1"
Anything else I need to do?
I also added the individual car sets that I found in the Data folder - not that it was necessary I think.
Also:
I need to r ender quite large (12inches by 24 inches at 300dpi) - but the scene renders too slowly even on the fast anti aliasing.
Any clues on this appreciated.? I have dropped the lights in the artificial GI down to 12 from 400 (?) approximately. Quality still not bad, but even with all lights deleted i t still takes a while to think about all the replicators.
Thanks for advice.
;)
edit running it through now without bump and transparency - speeds it up a little
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The Read Me is at:
http://docs.daz3d.com/doku.php/public/read_me/index/15969/start
thanks Jay_Nola.
I already have that link - unfortunately it tells me nothing - except where to find the scene.
I made a post but it seems to have been lost.
Anyways, one thing that might be worth trying is the enlargement software photographers use.
http://www.ononesoftware.com/products/perfect-resize/
Might be satisfactory Image Quality to do a smaller, high-quality render and then up-size it.
The trial is free - and there's no watermark - or there wasn't when I did the trial.
Hope this gives an alternative approach to getting the print size you need.
I like most of the enlargements I get from cropped photos. I especially like the Progressive Sharpener that can be used after the enlargement.
thanks Grimvald, appreciate t hat! Will look into the software - looks good.
any other hints appreciated
If he uses translucency in his leaves, you could get rid of it.
thanks evilproducer,
that;s a great idea
I'll check it out !
could be alphamaps as well slowing things, haven't looked at the leaves to see how they are made,
I buy stuff to support carrara vendors but
some of it never gets used because on the render times....
from what little I've seen of Howie's stuff, I'd suspect he uses leaf shapes (at least I hope he does), but alpha maps are an excellent idea as well!