Thanks bro.
I'm not sure, trueSpace doesn't give you a render summary when it's done, unfortunately, like some programs do. I know the background animation took around 1 1/2 to 2 hours to do. I think the frame average on the ship animation was around 1:46 at the end, so we'll call that 116 seconds. And there are 300 frames in the animation. So, that's about 580 seconds for the the ship animation, a little more than 9 1/2 hours, probably about 11 to 11 1/2 hours total when you add the background animation.
For the ship animation with the modeled planet, I only rendered 147 frames and the camera didn't get as close to the model (which slows down render time, of course) and it took a
lot longer than 11 1/2 hours to do just 147 frames (after the 147th frame, I switched to a .jpg background and rendered the other 153 frames in just under an hour.) And that animation also wasn't at full AA. It was only at 3x AA, the latest one was at 4x AA (the maximum) and took a lot less time to render. So, doing the animated background really saved a lot of time.
