4 cm, 2cm, 1cm

[robcat2075]

Here's a comparison of different size drops

 

 

4cm, emission rate 500, took a few minutes to simulate

 

 

2cm, emission rate 4000, took somewhat more than an hour to simulate

 

 

1cm, emission rate 32000, took seven hours to simulate

 

 

Actual render times are from 10 seconds to a few minutes.

 

4cm2cm1cm.mov

 

 

 

 

 

[Rodney]

Ouch.

 

Well, that would explain why A:M was 'locking up' on me when using small size particles.

 

 

Regarding the jittering...

I was experimenting with stepped rendering and in my test that helped tame that considerably.

The idea being to render every five frames or so out of the sequence rather than every frame.

[robcat2075]

Regarding the jittering...

I was experimenting with stepped rendering and in my test that helped tame that considerably.

The idea being to render every five frames or so out of the sequence rather than every frame.

 

that sounds interesting. Can you explain it a bit more? I'm not sure I understand "out of sequence"

[Rodney]

Can you explain it a bit more? I'm not sure I understand "out of sequence"

 

I should have said 'leaving frames out of the sequence'.

In other words, setting the step option to some other number than 1 in the Render Options.

I was playing with options of Multipass and Motion Blur too but my patience level wasn't sufficient.

 

I don't know how effective that method is as I've been running into odd behavior of other sorts.

I keep thinking I've got some settings that work well only to find out they don't.

Example: A:M wants to keep computing dynamics for every frame of the Chor so I set the frame range to 1 frame for the length.

This seems (seemed?) to suspend the computing of dynamics but then... it didn't.

 

 

[detbear]

One of my last waterfall sims in A:M has an emmission rate of 200,000. I think thats what it was.

 

Very long render.

[robcat2075]

I'll note that on my computer, at least, if I have any sort of simulation in progress and I do a mouse-click, in or out of the window, or if there is any other program running that is updating its screen, A:M will go to "Not Responding" and appear to be frozen.

 

It's still working and will come back when it finishes but if you want to monitor the simulation in progress you need to just let it be and not do anything else on the computer.