Landscaping

[CiroC]

Same trees and grass on a new file and the scene parsing is 25 seconds and geometry around 2:23. Still don't understand the reason why was taking so long.

[Nekrobul]

May be there is some sort of displacement?

[CiroC]

Yes, I am using displacement for the bark, but I am changing from individual grass blades to patches of grass. And to be honest the final look is much better.

[Nekrobul]

Try to convert displacement to geometry by using Displace modifier or decrease number  of displacement semples in render options That should fix geometry calculating time isues.

[CiroC]

Although I created some patches of grass the scene parsing is going from 25 seconds to 49 seconds. Is this bad or good enough? I removed the displacement from the trees, but the scene parsing stays at 35 or 45 seconds.

[CiroC]

More trees and I am getting 46 seconds 1 minute for the scene parsing, just because I added more grass. It seems there is a limitation for the geometry in the scene.

[Nekrobul]

1 minute for geometry is ok i think )

I also getting results like 20-60 s geometry pas for exterior scenes. But mostly i am trying not to use too much scatterd objets only where they are visible in reflections and direct visibility.

[CiroC]

I am converting every mesh into proxies and see if will reduce the scene parsing time.

[nehale]

in this scene i have over a billion polys and scene parsing is still at 1min depending on my ram, i have 24gb with more ram i suspect it will come down because during render its stays at 22gb used by max in task manager

[CiroC]

So, you are not using proxies at all?

I will have to do some test before, but I believe that if I create proxies for the grass as well, the scene parsing will get down eventually.

[nehale]

So, you are not using proxies at all?

I will have to do some test before, but I believe that if I create proxies for the grass as well, the scene parsing will get down eventually.

nope just forest pack

[CiroC]

And if you do a close up? How long it will take? I mean the scene parsing?

[nehale]

a bit lower due to forrest pack's camera clipping a guess

[Nekrobul]

I think it will be the same amount of time

[CiroC]

You are right the camera clipping makes all the difference, but your scene is impressive. Vegetation is quite complex and for example without any trees I can get a 19 seconds for scene parsing . But once I switch on the trees it goes to 40 seconds. It works in both ways.

Any suggestion to improve the vegetation material is appreciated.