[brandx0]

And another progress update

[Vector Leader]

Sooooo... awesome...

[Luis Dias]

wowowowowowow thumbs up!!

[WhiteFox]

Keep it going!  Love your work!
Very - Very - Very nice !

[brandx0]

And another update, this time a little bigger

[Pred the Penguin]

How long does it take to render the Falcon?

[brandx0]

These shots don't take any time, they're not renders, that's Max's new real-time viewport

[Pred the Penguin]

Yeah, I know. How long would it take to render though? Looks good enough already though...

[Luis Dias]

that's max realtime, with radiosity and all? pretty cool.

[Angelus]

Yeah, I know. How long would it take to render though? Looks good enough already though...

How long it takes to render depends mostly on the hardware, the number lights, the number of objects and polys/ tris in a scene, but also what kind of render one does as well as which renderer is chosen.
For instance, on my PC, with Win XP SP3, a clayrender with a model that has ~10k polys, took less then a minute in Max 9, same scene in Max 2011 took around 2-3 minutes.

The same hardware and same model with Win 7 PRO, the clayrender takes 8minutes in Max 9 and ~35-38 minutes in Max2011.

[chief1983]

The scary thing is that viewport screencaps look better than his renders did with his old hardware and older versions of Max.

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Wow, the amount of detail in the normal maps is gorgeous

For instance, on my PC, with Win XP SP3, a clayrender with a model that has ~10k polys, took less then a minute in Max 9, same scene in Max 2011 took around 2-3 minutes.

The same hardware and same model with Win 7 PRO, the clayrender takes 8minutes in Max 9 and ~35-38 minutes in Max2011.

Wait... so the same render can take up to 38(!) times longer, depending on software only?

[Angelus]

Wow, the amount of detail in the normal maps is gorgeous

For instance, on my PC, with Win XP SP3, a clayrender with a model that has ~10k polys, took less then a minute in Max 9, same scene in Max 2011 took around 2-3 minutes.

The same hardware and same model with Win 7 PRO, the clayrender takes 8minutes in Max 9 and ~35-38 minutes in Max2011.

Wait... so the same render can take up to 38(!) times longer, depending on software only?

Win 7 is more hardware demanding then XP. And Max requires also decent hardware. My system is simply way to old (~6-7years). On an average PC, one shouldn't have such rendertimes for a simple clayrender.

[brandx0]

That seems a very, very strange case.  I've never heard of anything like that before to be honest.

Either way, it very much depends.  The last render I posted (first post on page 3) took about 8 minutes to render.  That's Vray using some pretty high AA, full primary and secondary indirect illumination as well as displacement mapping.  A simple Ambient Occlusion render without the displacement would probably take around 2-4 minutes, depending on AA settings and whether I use the displacement or not.  And for reference, without displacement the model is at 8300 polies.  With displacement the model's polycount is effectively unlimited.

[Luis Dias]

Yeah, that's mostly a memory problem. I'd guess you have installed 1 GB of RAM, which win7 almost takes up everything for itself.

[brandx0]

Oh, and for reference, my system specs, or the only ones that matter for rendering anyways.

AMD Phenom 2.4GHz Quad-Core
8 GB Ram

[Angelus]

I'm on a 32bit Win 7 pro and a Socket 604 Xeon 2.4GHz with 3GB ECC DDR Ram and an ATI Radeon HD 2600XT.

[brandx0]

And another update here:

[Angelus]

this is going to beat the moviemodel by at least one ISD length. Pure awesomeness.

[BrotherBryon]

Very cool, can't wait to see it all rusty and dirty.