Little_Dragon opened this issue on Apr 29, 2002 ยท 12 posts
Little_Dragon posted Mon, 29 April 2002 at 3:58 AM

Credits:
Sabrina -- Eric Schwartz
Music -- Chopin (getting sick of it yet?)
Motion -- BVH file downloaded from LocoMotion Studios
All meshes (including Sabrina) modelled in MilkShape 3D
Rendered entirely in Poser (no postwork)
For those of you with dial-up, I apologize for the filesize, but I couldn't bear to compress it any further. It looks really nasty as it approaches the 1MB boundary.
This took longer than expected, due to the fact that Poser decided that it didn't have enough memory and would stop rendering the sequence after a few dozen frames. I removed Lemurtek's Lionheart character from the scene (he was leaning against the back wall by the cassette player), and reduced the resolution to 320x240; there was nothing left but a low-poly figure and environment with low-res textures, and still it choked on me. Eventually I resorted to rendering the animation in chunks and splicing them together afterwards.
Serves me right for finding a way to make Poser 4 do stuff that it can't do (reflections and omnidirectional lighting). Although the reflections weren't really a resource hog. I have to admit, though, that the machine has only 128MB of memory and I had roughly 20 spotlights in the scene, so that might have contributed to the problem.
This time, I think it actually was slower than raytracing.