Terragen render times

[Steve]

i dunno how many of you have full version of TG? to enable full quality settings.

i think generally i get about 1.5 hours per render, depending on the amount of water. so frustrating waiting sometimes, i think i will have to install TG on my spare comp

i made this one a while back, i'm not too sure what upset terragen on this, there is some odd atmosphere setting somewhere i guess, because there is not too much water. anyhoo IT TOOK 30 HOURS TO RENDER! >> http://www.deviantart.com/view/15613969/

only problem is that things sometimes look ok in the tiny preview windows but turn out **** , pity it took that amount of time to find out hehe

[.Simon.]

30 hours :O damn dude, thats sick lol

[Stu]

woah 30 hours ... my terragen (That only one person comment on,view it here), took about 20 mins, but only because it was at a wide resolution, the colours arent as vibrant as some ... but i was surprised, the pc at my dads house took 5 hours to render one of my abstracts.
-Tecceh2
EDIT
sorry, two ppl commented on it lol

[tzer]

I have the reg. version also. Yeah render times with wacked out atm. and alot of water, especially at resolutions around 4000x3000 can take 20-30 hours....thats not uncommon Steve. Some great TG work there on DA!! Didnt even know you had a DA account and were into TG Some nice surface maps yu have too! Are they d/l's or did you make most of them? Very nice!!

[Roshi]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...igs/bryce5.gif took me like 34 hours to render that

[Steve]

Originally posted by tzer
I have the reg. version also. Yeah render times with wacked out atm. and alot of water, especially at resolutions around 4000x3000 can take 20-30 hours....thats not uncommon Steve. Some great TG work there on DA!! Didnt even know you had a DA account and were into TG Some nice surface maps yu have too! Are they d/l's or did you make most of them? Very nice!!

thanks a lot

i only used TG for about 2 weeks, i caught the bug and rendered like crazy for a few days. but then i got a job so couldnt site here enough time to work things properly.

pretty much do my own surface maps since i started working on the beach renders i.e. this one >> http://www.deviantart.com/view/15416066/

my fave surface map is in this one >> http://www.deviantart.com/view/15754878/

i think more than anything i was put off by other users who can make really damn fine realistic surface maps, i just dont know how to achieve realism :

http://www.deviantart.com/view/7010326/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/17986703/
http://www.deviantart.com/view/11135192/