Thinking @ Speed of Light

Well this is awkward. I wrote this post about 5 months back but forgot to upload it. I just realised my mistake today while writing another post. Anyway here goes. Finally got a new system !!! My current laptop has been tortured enough ( http://blog.abhimanyukumar.in/search/label/HP6515b ). May it rest in peace. Config: Processor: Intel i7 2600K 3.4 GHz Mobo: ASUS P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3 Motherboard RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 4 GB 1600MHz x 2 Graphics: Zotax nVidia GTX 570 Cabinet: Cooler Master Elite 431 Plus PSU : Cooler Master Extreme Power Plus 600 watt HDD: Currently using the 160GB 2.5" HDD from my laptop. Will update later. Monitor: Dell S2230MX 21.5" Ultra-Slim Monitor with LED PS: Rendering on this is about 8.75 times faster than my laptop.

Just to clarify "Ogre-Rig" is not some wired space age monster that lives in the jungle and renders 3D images for fun it is just a normal computer that has been named so as it belongs to a friend Ogre (Mudit Gupta) . Moving on. Here i setup a scene using an earlier made model of a  Ferrari F430 . But this time instead of using a daylight system in 3Ds max i decided to use HDRI with Final Gather to light up the scene.I took me a bit of time to get the settings right and the shadow generation part was really annoying but i finally did it (Will post a tutorial soon explaining how to make your own HDRI image lighting with shadows and what exactly is HDRI ). Note: I downloaded the HDRI images from www.openfootage.net . The specifics of the scene are: Polygons : 202092 Lights : 5 (Ray Traced Shadows) , 1 HDRI Lighting system Image Resolution : 3840x2560 Renderer : Mental Ray 3Ds Max Version : 2011 Image Precision (Anti-aliasing) : High ( Min =1 , Max=16) Final Gather...