More Honorverse Stuff…
See, this is when it gets fun. I’ve got a nice fat hopper full of things to render now, buffed and polished so if they’re not actually making me happy, at least I’m not actively embarrassed by ‘em.
The first set of Honorverse shots are rendering on my dear old mate RiK’s Mac Pro – still apparently the cheapest way to get eight Xeon cores in one place, must get myself one of those – so I can stop messing about with trying to optimise it and worry about other things, such as the “Big Ship Gets a Steaming Great Hole Blown in It” shot.
Comme ça.
Still having a fiddle with my CFD solver, and I wish the darn author would re-license my replacement dongle… but I’m tolerably happy with the fiddling today. Might conclude that shot with the “down low” angle rather than the “up high” – seeing a honking great spaceship (with a steaming great hole blown in it) hanging over one’s head does seem a touch more dramatic. Wouldn’t you say? Anyway – now I’ve got RiK’s Big Mac (arf) grinding away on one shot, Lady Macbeth (the big rig) on this one, leaving me free to muck around tuning up a Vue render on Dauntless (the nice laptop I got in New Hampshire for not an awful lot of money).
Nine days and a wake-up ’til I fly, and I’d say it could be a lot worse. Yay!