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5 Jul 2024 07:52:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Spinner colony (again)  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 24 Feb 2015 18:56:57
Message: <54ed0fc9$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/24/2015 3:24 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 24/02/2015 02:45, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>> I tried turning on the atmosphere and area light in my latest version of
>> the spaceship interior, but after 10 hours the render was at 8% and
>> hadn't reached the slow bits yet. I will try again in 10 years. :(
>
> What size of area light (in term of row & column) did you try ?
> (did you try a preview with only 2x2 area lights, to get an idea of time
> to render ?)
> What option (adaptative ? +AM2 or +AM1 ?) are you using to speed up area
> lights ?
>

The area light is a 16x1 grid. Anything less leaves weird shadows.


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