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well.... i accept for my animations only render times of about 10 or 20 seconds per frame. with shadows, at MOST one minute per frame. AT MOST. there's ALWAYS a workaround to make the desired effect in a faster way. for example, some of my work, i merge with after effects. after effects renders effects much faster then anim8or (or any 3d program for that matter), so if i divide my render in layers and edit and compose everything in after effects, i could have a scene of 30 seconds, rendered out in maybe half an hour, given the average complexity of say, the video above?

anyway, i don't expect you guys ar using your anim8or in combination with a 2d video program, but i suggest you try it out. and be creative. Familyman, your work is getting better as we go. keep going. i'm expecting more from you

P.S.: Familyman, what computer do you have? that might explain a lot 

i have an AMD64 3700+, 1gb DDR RAM and ASUS motherboard.

10 hours? WHAT? i thinkt you overpolied your scene dude! you should try to make your scene simpler. for instance, the mountains in the background can be rendered to an image, which you will set as background. nobody will see the difference, but you only had to render the mountains once, with same result as now. also, i hope you made the snowhouse and the connection so detailed using textures? cause it looks like you might have modelled all the carvings (the brick carvings, not the dirt.)

one last note: snow falls in the form of snowflakes, and much faster. these are crystals, thats impossible. just make little white dots falling really fast. thats more like a snowstorm.

otherwise, very very nice animation! nice improvement on your old one, too.

well what about if you write in that last option, two frames in parallel, and make a switch, so the users with enough memory can turn it on and the rest leaves it off? if it's not too hard, i think this would be a great feature.

i just stumbled across a website with an opensource raytracer. wouldn't it be easier for steve to just take some parts of those codes? or is that against GNU?

http://www.toxicengine.org/links.php

just occured to me, isnt it possible to use scripts to have tools like the particle plugin from terranim8or work directly in anim8or? then maybe we'd get particle systems in anim8or 

i dont want to be annoying, but it's just so much easier when the particles are editable in anim8or

guess it isnt possible tough, i guess someone would have made one by now if it was....

here's another one with more diamonds.



come on, is nobody using ART to make shiny things? start rendering!

hehe i know that, but try to unzip a .docx file. you'll notice that it is actually a zip-file containing several data files. try it!