[Bubbaloo]

Here is a new version of the QT Ellenwood building. The design has been changed and I moved the camera and added more plants:

[Bubbaloo]

50 instanced trees with over 600,000,000 triangles:

Benchmark 2!

High Res:
DivShare File - 50Trees.tif

[-Adrian]

Now that's a lot
Can't imagine this renders in any reasonable amount of time.

[sandykoufax]

Wow small mountain

and

one tree has 13,536,233 trianges.

[Bubbaloo]

Can't imagine this renders in any reasonable amount of time.

You are right!

one tree has 13,536,233 trianges

Bionatics Ash tree at full detail = huge!

[tom]

Benchmark 2!

We've addressed an issue when another geometry in the scene intersecting with instances, it's slowing down. If you have a ground intersecting the instances, try keeping it a bit away while making sure it's not intersecting the trees (better hide it and try first). Total polygon amount is nothing. I've successfully rendered over 46 gigapoly buddhas easily and rapidly on a P4.

[Bubbaloo]

Ok, I'll try.

[Bubbaloo]

Benchmark 2!

We've addressed an issue when another geometry in the scene intersecting with instances, it's slowing down. If you have a ground intersecting the instances, try keeping it a bit away while making sure it's not intersecting the trees (better hide it and try first). Total polygon amount is nothing. I've successfully rendered over 46 gigapoly buddhas easily and rapidly on a P4.

I deleted the ground plane and still the benchmark is the same.
Could it be that instances should not intersect either?

[tom]

Could it be that instances should not intersect either?

It shouldn't...

[JCAddy]

ooOoo sweet trees Brian

What trees are these?

[Bubbaloo]

Thanks!
Bionatics "Ash"

[Bubbaloo]

Ok, 5,000 trees @ 1.25 million poly's each = 6.25 billion poly's.
12.5 billion triangles:

[JCAddy]

What's the render time / SL?

[Bubbaloo]

S.L. 6 @1200x900
About 30 minutes coop with 4 quad cores and one 8-core...
Benchmark 4.
The 4 quad cores have 3 Gigs of ram and handled it just fine.

[Fernando Tella]

Maybe it can be due to the bunch of clipped planes crossing too. They have clipped planes, right?