Noobie. Will render continue until image is totally clear???

[cosrush]

Ive been rendering my first image with Blendigo for 10hours and 46 mins so far, and it still has a grainy look to it. Will the render continue until a point at which it says it has finished or will it just keep trying to render until I stop it.

It doesn't look much different to how it looked 8 hours ago........

[Big Fan]

well the nature of indigo is you can just keep until you are happy with it
it depends on a number of things how fast its going to clear up
hardware speed , materials, size of image...
how about you post some details and a wip image so we can tell you more about it

[cosrush]

well the nature of indigo is you can just keep until you are happy with it
it depends on a number of things how fast its going to clear up
hardware speed , materials, size of image...

how about you post some details and a wip image so we can tell you more about it

1280 x 1024.
Athlon 64 3200

[Vanessa07]

You can stop now and use a .nk data for the swords.

http://deeppixel.uw.hu/projects/NK_materials.html

You're going to wait 30 hours

[Zom-B]

Rendering on a single core Processor as you do, will take some time
Maybe you got some other Computers @ home that could join via network rendering, also over the Internet via Hamachi is a option!!

If you got Hybrid mode activated, try to deactivate it for the next time...

Your scene is quite nice, some optimization and you got a really nice piece of art done
For Example the black borders, good visible on the untextured version are normal smoothing issues! Subdivide your edges more, or control smoothing by angle on the critical objects...

Reduce the overall IOR you are using for the materials, and enhance the ground texture (and the other looooow res textures) some bump maping could be nice too

I hope to see this scene

[cosrush]

Thanks to all for the replies.

You can stop now and use a .nk data for the swords.

http://deeppixel.uw.hu/projects/NK_materials.html

You're going to wait 30 hours Laughing

Thanks for that i'll look into it

Rendering on a single core Processor as you do, will take some time Sad
Maybe you got some other Computers @ home that could join via network rendering, also over the Internet via Hamachi is a option!!

Im not worried to be honest of the rendering time, im doing it at home and I leave it rendering in the background. It doesn't slow down anything else im doing. I just leave it going overnight.
I was more worried that I might be waiting for it to get better and due to other settings it might not have, and therefore after 20 hours might have looked the same as it did after 2 if you see what I mean.

If you got Hybrid mode activated, try to deactivate it for the next time...

Ok I will do. Thx

Your scene is quite nice, some optimization and you got a really nice piece of art done Smile
For Example the black borders, good visible on the untextured version are normal smoothing issues! Subdivide your edges more, or control smoothing by angle on the critical objects...

Reduce the overall IOR you are using for the materials, and enhance the ground texture (and the other looooow res textures) some bump maping could be nice too Wink

Thx. Im fairly new to Blender too, so have a lot to learn there. but doing things like this is a great way to learn your way around it.

I haven't worked out how to get the right lighting yet either. I wanted it to be much darker with the exception of sun rays shining in through the skylights above the swords giving it a hazy effect.

Also I wanted the objects behind the swords to be ever increasingly out of focus.

Still so much to learn