"Fabien Mosen" <fab### [at] skynetbe> wrote in message
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> Ari-Matti Leppanen wrote:
>
> > These aren't good looking, just testing this trick.
>
>
> Is what you did *really* equivalent to bypassing the reflection in
> radiance samples ?
>

The documentations says: 6.11.11.1 "..provides a way to replace the last
term - the constant ambient light value - with a light level which is based
on what surfaces are nearby..".
By that I would say that reflections don't affect the result so it's *not
really* equivalent.
Then speed difference is probably from the fact that always_sample is off in
the second case. I should check if there's a difference when it's on.

Ari-Matti

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