Am 25.05.2010 18:15, schrieb Jim Holsenback:

> ah yes ... I did notice that, but was hoping for some technical upgrades
> while I had the file checked out.

I took care to not change radiosity parameterization too much, so 
generally the setting should still be as good as they used to be.

> Currently working on a scene that's been rendering since last evening.
> Granted it has media (shafts of light through a window) but that seems
> kind of lengthy render time to me. I'm doing radiosity gather (two pass)
> with a tad of AA and media samples less than what I'd settle for in the
> final version. I'm using the IndoorHG setting and was wondering if the
> "canned" settings are optimal. Any thoughts on if these are the settings
> to use or can I do better with less overhead (render time)

As stated in the file, the settings are not intended to be optimum 
settings - they can't be anyway, as every scene is different.

Do you have the radiosity media setting on? It may make a hell of a 
difference in render time, while probably not contributing /too/ much to 
radiosity quality.


BTW, my lanterns on the water did behave exceptionally badly until I set 
some objects to "no_radiosity" which would contribute virtually nothing 
anyway, and just cost extra intersection testing time; the most 
offending ones were a pair of (pseudo-) sky spheres.

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