<nomail@nomail> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> Here is the problem in it's briefest form.
> I set POV-Ray rendering on a scene with photons and left it for about 7
> hours.
> When I came back I saw that it hadn't even started rendering yet, it was
> just building photon maps.
> Now this is the problem: It had built a photon map of about 1,500,000,000
> photons. I stopped it at this point and looked through the code but I
> couldn't see anything wrong. I tried running it again, but watched it this
> time. After about 10 seconds it started rendering, but I hadn't changed
any
> code at all.
>
> Why did this happen? Please tell me.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>

are you explicitly using "count" in photon global settings, or are you using
"spacing"? count will limit the number of photons, and spacing will use as
many as it needs(?). that's my naive understanding. i always use count.

http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/209/

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