POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.animations : slow render using INI file : Re: slow render using INI file Server Time
28 Jul 2024 10:20:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: slow render using INI file  
From: Chris Colefax
Date: 10 Nov 2000 22:20:20
Message: <3a0cbaf4@news.povray.org>
jason lechak <fro### [at] netzeronet> wrote:
> hello all. I am curious if anyone has experienced an unusually slow
> render time when using INI file settings. I am using the explode include
> file, and when I automate the animation process by setting the start and
> stop frames, and the start clock values in the INI file, it seems to
> take about 6 minutes to render an image. however, when I perform the
> animation manually, by adjusting the explode_clock value, the same
> images take about 15 seconds. Any ideas?

This is a problem with the bounding threshold setting POV-Ray uses to
optimise renderings.  If you specify Bounding_Threshold=0 in your INI file,
you should find that performance greatly improves...


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