SAND33P Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Currently working on a project of mine, reaching above 75 layers, just curious if there was a max number of layers within PDN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 I would guess it would depend on how much RAM your comp has really. To be safe I would save each of the pdn files after every edit you do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted November 24, 2012 Author Share Posted November 24, 2012 (edited) Yeah i have been saving backups of it every few minutes If your curious, here's what has taken up so many layers [still a work in progress] http://i49.tinypic.com/2u8capv.jpg Edited November 24, 2012 by SAND33P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitenurse79 Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 If your curious, here's what has taken up so many layers [still a work in progress] http://i49.tinypic.com/2u8capv.jpg Cool image, so much detail 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 It's only limited by how much memory you have, and how much performance hit can work with. Each layer will reduce rendering performance because all pixels, not just the non-transparent ones, must be taken into account when doing composition. And by this you can think of the rendering engine as constantly doing "Flatten Image" so that it can render it to the screen (which can't render layers ). So more RAM = more layers. More CPU speed and cores = faster layers. When working with "a lot" of layers, 64-bit is highly recommended. 32-bit systems will be prone to crashing. 1 Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted November 25, 2012 Author Share Posted November 25, 2012 Thanks Nitenurse And thanks for the techy side Rick, ill be sure to save many backups of this, i still think im going to hit past 100 layers before im finished Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxicblue Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Thats pretty good stuff. I'd love to know how you did the ekg-like line at the top with the red and blue blending togather so well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 Kinda hard to explain really, the colour for the red was put in while i was doing it (Using wide red gradients behind each other, then changing to thinner ones (rendering 'Glow' on your thinner gradients could help for that effect), then using the lines drawn in slightly blurred then a drop shadow. Keep experimenting, make small changed then you'l find what works, i suggest you only use layer blends for colour to begin with, its better to get a more fine control over your colours. The middle lighting was done manually, top right by layer blends Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddLlama Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 WOW! That is an amazing picture! 1 Quote Here is my website - http://www.oddllama.cu.cc Here is my gallery - http://oddalpaca.deviantart.com/gallery Am I odd? - yes Am I a llama? - yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted December 4, 2012 Author Share Posted December 4, 2012 Thanks! It's finished now, you can probably figure out where it is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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