Well, you're using fairly low settings. Try with very high radiosity
settings and see if it isn't faster.

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Jonathan.
"Anthony D'Agostino" <sco### [at] spamEcsicom> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> When Rad=1, my scene renders in 1 minute.
> When Rad=2, it takes almost 3 minutes!
> What is wrong?  Isn't it supposed to be faster?
>
> -----------------------------------
> #declare Rad = 1;
>
> global_settings {
>   assumed_gamma 1
> #switch (Rad)
>  #case (1)
>   radiosity {
>     pretrace_start 0.08
>     pretrace_end   0.02
>     count 50
>     error_bound 0.5
>     recursion_limit 1
>     save_file "Filename.rca"
>   }
>  #break
>  #case (2)
>   radiosity {
>     pretrace_start 1
>     pretrace_end   1
>     always_sample off
>     load_file "Filename.rca"
>   }
>  #break
> #end
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> Andy Cocker <big### [at] mariner9fsnetcouk> wrote in message
>
> > Have you tried saving the initial radiosity solution, then reloading it
> for
> > all subsequent frames ( with always_sample_off and a pretrace start and
> end
> > set to 1)? I tried it, and the results were perfect. Objects were moving
> in
> > my scene, though the camera was stationary. Dunno if this would make an
> > impact on the results.
>
>
>

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