CompuServe Messages

Chris, (ala Homer – DOH!) That should have been obvious. The A-Wings rendered in 2 hours 43 min. That may seem excessive, but they are so detailed that 16meg RAM wasn't enough to render two of them in one scene, so I had to use 36000 in the Prefs memory. And that still wasn't enough as you can see by looking at the lower A-wing; the image map on the hump behind the cockpit did not fully render leaving an angled edge. Increasing the Prefs memory setting past 36000 resulted in AM locking up 1/2-3/4 of the way through rendering. It is becoming increasingly clear that if I am going to keep producing models at this level of detail or higher, that I am going to need at least 64-128meg of RAM. The star field backgrounds I use are montages of graphics that come with astronomy programs that have been converted to the .TGA format and then, in most cases, heavily image edited. For instance, most nebula are almost always in the colors red-orange, but I prefer greens, blues and magentas, so I break images up into RGB componets and cut them paste them differently – like to begin by changing the overall red to more of a blue-magenta, I copy the blue channel to red, and vice versa. I have a number of graphics of nebula, about 20 different galaxies, and a dozen or so star fields, and I cut and paste pieces of each to create my backgrounds. Michael S. Flynn