POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Dragon Lady : Re: Dragon Lady Server Time
26 Jun 2024 11:59:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Dragon Lady  
From: Alain
Date: 10 Aug 2016 18:55:59
Message: <57abb0ff$1@news.povray.org>
Le 16-08-10 à 04:01, Stephen a écrit :
> On 8/7/2016 11:26 PM, Alain wrote:
>> Here are the default vbalues :
>> method 3
>> samples 10
>> intervals 1 // Don't increase !
>>
>> The default code from Bishop mostly repeat the actual defaults values.
>> That effectively make then into "no operation" code.
>>
>> Even on the fastest machine, using intervals >1 is a serious performance
>> killer.
>
>
> Thanks Alain,
> B3D sets the default value for intervals to 10. We must have missed that
> during testing.
> I have created a default texture in the new scene template which I will
> copy instead of creating from the menu.
> (Thinking back. This must be the source of many of my problems in the
> past.)
>

IIRC, intervals 10 is the default for method 1 and 2. Also, method 1 was 
the default before version 3.5.

It's common for pre version 3.5 scenes and include to set intervals to 
larger values than that. It's also common for external utilities made 
during that time to have similar settings.


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