Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> If I have a bunch of lights inside a box, one light outside of a box, one 
> object to illuminate outside the box, and one camera outside the box, the 
> trace goes much faster if I remove the lights inside the box from the scene. 
> Apparently, POV isn't clever enough to know that the lights inside the solid 
> opaque box don't affect the scene outside the box.

  How about simply enclosing those light sources inside #if blocks?
If the camera is outside, don't create the inside light sources at all.

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