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  1. A bit late on the reply as I know you have already finished this. A quick look at Google Street View will help you visualize downtown Vancouver living ( or on any major cities ).
  2. That's what I thought. Thanks for the link. I'll see if I can put it to use.
  3. Hi All, Anybody knows how to create corner windows in Autocad Architecture 2011? It's an easy thing to do in Autocad architecture 2012. Unfortunately, except for me, everyone else have 2011. I've tried saving the one I created in 2012 and open it in 2011 but it dosenn't work. The corner window will disappear and change back to a regular linear window. Any ideas will help. Thanks a lot.
  4. Hi All, Thank you for all your prompt replies. Following most of your ideas and suggestions over the weekend, the render time was greatly reduced to about 3 hours for each scene. It was a throw off between here and there but It came out as intended in the end. I even manage to increase the image size, sampling quality, FG and noise filtering which boosted the sharpness of the image. There was no drastic change in render time which was still about 3 hours. Again, thank you very much. I really appreciate it.
  5. Hi Jeff, When I was doing partial test renders, my original intent was to use the Far Attenuation feature of the Photometric Lights. But it seems that I couldn't get pass the Final Gather computation. But I'll give it a try again tonight. I agree with you on the image sampling. I ended up using these figures because it seems to render faster. My intent was to have it at min. 1 and max. 16 or 64. Thanks a lot for the input. Please feel free to comment on it some more. I will post the results soon.
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  8. Hello Mental Ray Faithfuls, I need expert advice on dealing with lengthy render times I am having on a couple of interior scenes I am working on. Render times can reach over 20 hours on a single 2400 X 1560 ppi image. It is easy to point that the culprits may be the 50 photometric lights placed inside the model that I cannot do without. Without the photometric lights and using exposure and gamma control instead to illuminate the scene, the same image would render just over an hour. But of course, the result would be less desirable. But I am not eliminating the possibility that I could have set my GI, FG and other stuff wrongly thus making things complicated. Or perhaps my render times are normal for these scenes? Anybody to the rescue and be my hero? I have attached 2 of the WIP scenes and most of the settings. Hopefully, these are enough to give you an insight what’s going on. Let me know if you need more information about the model. About the model: - Modeled in Sketchup Pro 6 and exported to 3DS format. - Polys: 728,871 - Verts: 521,433 - 20 free rectangle PL, shadow ON, uniform diffuse, 25% - 22 free rectangle PL, shadow OFF, uniform diffuse ( pointing upwards), 22% - 6 free light, shadow OFF, spotlight, 20% - 2 free light, shadow OFF, uniform sphere, 40% - 1 daylight system, shadows ON My Machine: - Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011 64 bit - Windows 7 Professional, Service pack 1, - Intel Core i7 CPU 960@3.20 GHZ - 12.0 GB Ram - 64 Bit Operating System Thank you very much for all your help. Any suggestions and ideas will be greatly appreciated. [ATTACH=CONFIG]42477[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]42478[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]42476[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]42475[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]42474[/ATTACH] Due to the limit in attachments, I have attached the next 5 of 15 on the reply that follows.
  9. Nothing a good chiropractor couldn't fix. Of course, routine exercises and good posture helps a lot.
  10. If you have US$172.00 to spare, try getting these. No people for entourage though. http://www.evermotion.org/modelshop/show_product/archmodels-vol-84/4406/0/0/[ATTACH=CONFIG]42369[/ATTACH]
  11. Hello. Mind if I join the April 1st meet? In case anyone is intrested, Chaos Group the maker of VRay is doing a road show on March 29th here in Vancouver. Please see http://chaosgroup.com/newsletters/20110315/ for details. Chaos Group is coming to Canada to share its most recent developments in rendering technologies! Together with our partner 3VIS we invite you to join us for the first Chaos Group Canadian Tour. Chaos Group has put together a comprehensive program, which includes all core products, V-Ray 2.0 for 3ds Max and a sneak preview of the upcoming V-Ray 2.0 for Maya. In addition, representatives from renowned visualization studios like Mackevision and Cicada Design will share their experience with V-Ray and why the rendering engine has become their preferred solution for creating visualization of photorealistic architectural and design concepts. Also for the Vancouver event, the Academy Award-winning studio Digital Domain will be on hand to demonstrate how V-Ray played a key role on a recent blockbuster film. Looking forward to seeing you, Chaos Group Team
  12. Hello. Would be really intrested on this. Please keep us posted on developments.
  13. Hello RevitGary,

     

    Sorry for the longest reply ever. Been very very busy since March and now winding down for the year. To answer your question, I used to for 3 years. I now live in Canada.

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