POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Blurred Reflection Dice : Re: Blurred Reflection Dice Server Time
2 Nov 2024 02:17:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Blurred Reflection Dice  
From: clipka
Date: 30 Nov 2011 19:39:10
Message: <4ed6ccae@news.povray.org>

> Hi(gh)!
>
> Finally I got some decent results with blurred reflection (bumps 0.25,
> 40 texture layers, normals scaled to 0.001)... but I had to correct
> max_trace_level from 5 (default) to 2! The first image (default level)
> took about 40 minutes, the second only 5'43 minutes...

Try duplicating your dice: One instance with the 40-layer blurred 
reflections and "no_reflection no_radiosity no_shadow", and the other 
with just a single layer and "no_image".

(Of course this is only good if you don't have any straightforward 
mirrors in your scene.)


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