d.hyde Posted May 21, 2009 Share Posted May 21, 2009 Can anyone tell me the best way of rendering large areas of trees? I have an animation project that requires large forested areas and I'm not sure how to tackle it. I have tried making proxies of low poly trees but the render times are huge and the noise levels are really bad even with my noise threshold set to .001 Does anyone know a better way of dealing with high quanities of vegetation? If anyone can also shed any light on why the noise is so bad, I would really appreciate it! I've attached my settings so you can see where I may have gone wrong. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizuby Posted May 22, 2009 Share Posted May 22, 2009 Do your trees have opacity mapped leaves? This is the only time I have problems with enormous render times. If the leaves are modelled the render times aren't so bad. On the chaos group site there are a few examples of thousands of trees rendered with pretty low render times. They use proxied trees with Vray Scatter or ForestLite plugin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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