Marc Champagne wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Yes, but does the pretrace affect the quality of radiosity or is it just
> a mosaic effect for the render-window?
> 
> It's not quite clear from the above if smaller values will give better
> results.
> 

In general you can say: lower pretrace_end -> higher quality and slower
render.  But how much you gain depends on the other settings.  As a rule
of thumb you can say a low error_bound also profits from low
pretrace_end.  A high error_bound combined with a low pretrace_end is just
a waste of time.

Christoph

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