Wow. This is one cool piece of Software!!!
It turns out it wouldn't recognize my CD for it (for some weirdo reason) so I made an ISO image and mounted the image. Guess what - it worked. GG for companies to require CD's in the drive to run.
Anyways...I made some designs with it...tell me what you think!
This one is a 1920x1080 resolution image of the area where my parents
have bought a parcel of land, near Harmon, West Virginia. Harmon would
be located in the green triangular bit in the valley, their parcel of
land is just about 100 feet from the top of the mountain, where this
rendering's viewpoint "starts" if that makes sense. Most of these
renders will start from about this location :)
This image is at 1152xwhatever and shows the topographical elevation lines from a Tennessee Valley Authority Digital Raster Graphic (DRG) file overlayed on top of the USGS NED-Digital Elevation Map (NED-DEM). It's kinda neat.
These were my two favorites. I haven't played around with Vue yet, perhaps I will this week. Oh, and the neatest part? My new PC will EASILY handle 1/9th (high res) DEM's covering large areas, and has no trouble dropping the full resolution DRG's on top of them - total time from clicking the overlay command at full res to getting the image preview? About seven seconds. Also, the Render at 1920 took approximately one minute. I did a render at 1920 with Natural Scene Designer's trees, but...they didn't work quite the way I'd hoped, though, they do look nice from a distance :)
~Brad
So that answers my question about how your new rig is handling the rendering. The views look great!
Posted by: Chris | October 11, 2007 at 08:35 PM