POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Questions about radiosity : Re: Questions about radiosity Server Time
31 Jul 2024 06:13:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Questions about radiosity  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 1 Sep 2007 04:58:13
Message: <46d929a5$1@news.povray.org>
Zoly wrote:
> One clarification: may I remove AA from the first step as it will not affect 
> the values stored in the radiosity file?

  Of course! ...and don't forget to do the same with focal blur and area lights!

> I also just realized with more tests that if I use the same radiosity 
> parameters at both steps, the second one runs much faster. If I change 
> 'count', 'error_bound', 'recursion_limit' even to more relaxed values, it 
> takes more than double of the time to render.

   Yes, that's my observation also... I suppose it's because if the params 
are the same, it just has to load the rad data file (provided you have 
always_sample off).


--
Jaime


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