Anne,
If you want to make a video of 3 minutes at the highest resolution, you should be prepared to wait anywhere betweeen 1-2 days and a month (or two) for your computer to finish making the calculations.
Seen the fact that these calculations are done in Java, a faster graphics card would not speed up this proces.
Try to make one or two testruns of your video at lower resolutions. That way you get an idea of how long it might take.
Let's make a calculation:
- lowest resolution 176 x 132 x 12 = 278.784 pixels per second
- highest resolution 1920 x 1080 x 25 = 51.840.000 pixels per second
That means that at the highest resolution your computer will have to calculate 185 times more pixels. That means, that what takes 1 hour at low resolution, takes slightly over a week at highest resolution.
EDIT
The above is apart from several other factors that strongly influence the time it takes to render your design:
- number and complexity of models
- number and size of textures
- number of light sources (example1 example2)
- number of glass and/or shiny objects
Now, who said that patience is a virtue?
Hans
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