For a second, the computer froze. The fans in his tower wailed like a jet engine taking off. Elias held his breath. Then, like digital magic, a perfect, cascading sea of red terracotta tiles blossomed across the 3D model. They overlapped perfectly. They had "randomized variation." They looked real .
Elias looked at the file still sitting in his Downloads folder. "Just had the right tools for the job," he croaked. Download File AvizStudioTools_ATiles_v2.62 _ vf...
As the progress bar crept forward, Elias leaned back, his eyes bloodshot from the blue light. He watched the file name flicker. The "vf" at the end likely stood for "vray_fix," a patch for his specific rendering engine. If this didn't work, the render would take twenty hours. If it did, he might actually get to sleep for forty-five minutes. 98%... 99%... Complete. For a second, the computer froze