Subject: Re:  Forge Speed
Date: Thu, 19 May 94 12:07:45 PDT
From: "Charles Congdon" <CCONGDON@us.oracle.com>

Dale R. Rogers writes:

>	Maybe I have something set up wrong or my 030 is slow as hell, but
>	it seems to take quite a while to render the textures in Forge.
>       :
>	updates much faster than I am.  When setting my textures I still
>	have to walk away from the machine for 5 minutes or so and wait
>	for the rendering to make a few passes.  I admit that I haven't
>	read the entire manual so there may be a setting I need to adjust.
>	Any ideas?

	Well, it does take a little while for Forge to complete the final
passes (2-3 minutes) on a stock A3000 25Mhz, but the first few passes should
take about 30 seconds to a minute.
	Things to check:
1)  Antialiasing - make sure it is at its minimal value.  Sounds like you might
    have it cranked up, which is really not necessary except for rendering to
    a file.  The default is for no antialiasing.
2)  Rendering priority really low compared to other CPU-intesive tasks on your
    system (check Forge's preferences).
3)  Number of textures layered.  Obviously, if you layer 9 textures, it's
    going to take a while to render.  But with 1 or 2 textures layered, you
    should be getting a very good idea of what the results look like in under a
    minute, with final results in that 2-4 minutes.

	Some animators have also done postage-stamp sized renders to work out
the gross details, then expanded the rendering window to full size and used
zooming to get the final details.  That shouldn't be necessary in your case,
however.
	I hope this helps.
	Cheers,
	Charles


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