Bryce renders slowly

[mwmorph]

I'vr been using bryce 5 at work(dont ask why GE medical needs bryce), but anyway, no our 2.8ghz, 512mb, radeon9000 systems, it renders uincomprehensibly slow. a simple sphere on a ground plane, sky turned off, 1 light, and all light effects on/custom, fine anti alising, no textures on sphere/ground/no gel light, it takes around 20 minutes to render.

What is bryce dependant on GPU or CPU? Ram maybe? What can I do to make it render faster? It's infuriating to sit there and wait for so long.

 

[mryellow2]

CPU dependent afaik. Have any unoccupied machines you can farm the render out to? One of our artists here uses a bunch of our G5s (which we hardly touch) as a mini render farm. I think he uses maya though. Not sure what the capabilities of bryce are as far as breaking up the render work.

 

[DaveSimmons]

CPU. Rendering is really really slow in general, nothing like 3D games.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
CPU. Rendering is really really slow in general, nothing like 3D games.

 

[Atheus]

Hard to render spheres, try some cubic or polygonal objects.

 

[Chaotic42]

Bryce is really slow at rendering. You'd need some kind of 20GHz monster to make that program run well.