Release 2 Raytracing?
05-Apr-92 17:11:04
Sb: #11709-Release 2 Raytracing?
Fm: Graphics Software, Inc. 75300,2456
To: Yost Group 76702,413
Jack,
All I know is that one of our users (who uses BIG D, 3DS, and
AutoShade/RenderMan extensively) told me he could not render anything in
3DS with a resolution greater than about 1600 pixels due to hard disk
requirements. Since he is a power user, I am sure he had at least 100+ MB
free disk space so something other than the image file itself (maybe shadow
maps?) is taking up a lot of disk space. He claimed that rendering anything
above 2K resolution (while possible) is just not practical. So I'd be
interested to know just what the hard disk requirements would be for a
typical 4K x 4K image.
Dennis Bragg