Hi,
I have a big problem. I am working on a smaller animation film now (plannd to be 15 minutes about) as a 3d graphican. So I design the places, and as I have the best computer in the team, my duty is to render the whole stuff too. We decided to do this in Vue because it seems to be a nice engine or what. But I have a problem with the rendering time..
So there is a scene: the camera is in an office in a skyscraper, and you can see a city around. The windows and the floor are reflective objects. The sun shines from in front of the camera, and there are some dropped shadows of course. The city has a built-in Vue texture, one of the building textures. I render it in a bit worse quality than final (it's a user defined quality, which I created in order to make things faster..) in which simple shadows and reflection is enabled, but no Antialiasing or other extras like that. However it takes 7-11 minutes to render a simple scene.
As you can see, it means that 1 second of animation takes about 2-3 hours to render, which means that the whole rendering process will take months without break.... so any ideas how to decrease the rendering time without recognisable decreasement in quality? Shadows and reflections are needed, they are on lowest quality.
I would also like to know which parts of the computer take part in the rendering, so which should be improved for faster process.
I would need help urgently...