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New render of the ship.

Now with engine effects!

The smoke added 84 years to the render time...

Since rendering this I have separated the smoke and the ship onto separate layers. The ship needs to be rendered at at least 650 samples, so when it's rendering areas covered by the smoke domain it slows down to the point of almost stopping entirely.

But!! The smoke is a light source, so isn't affected by the graininess that appears on low sample renders. It can be rendered at 1 sample or 10,000, it makes no difference.

So, by separating them, and then combining them in the video sequence editor I can reduce the render time from around three hours to around five minutes.

Description
New render of the ship.

Now with engine effects!

The smoke added 84 years to the render time...

Since rendering this I have separated the smoke and the ship onto separate layers. The ship needs to be rendered at at least 650 samples, so when it's rendering areas covered by the smoke domain it slows down to the point of almost stopping entirely.

But!! The smoke is a light source, so isn't affected by the graininess that appears on low sample renders. It can be rendered at 1 sample or 10,000, it makes no difference.

So, by separating them, and then combining them in the video sequence editor I can reduce the render time from around three hours to around five minutes.