Hallo,
I work with Rhinoceros as registerd user and with the Rhino I use for
designing MoRay as registered user too. For rendering I use your very great
program POVRay 3.0. This one is indeed very excellent in WIN NT4.0, all is
O.K. But I have a little problem with rendering time. Now I render a scene
with 349 objects, 7 spotlites and 4 AreaLights. On the bootom bar in MoRay I
read these values: 66572 V (69%), 107636 E (63%), in "Advanced" window I
have set: Memory in kB to use for Vertices: 3000, Memory in kB to use for
Edges: 2000, Minimum number of lines to draw before refreshing 1000, Maximum
number of lines to draw before refreshing 2000. The picture has size: 2048 x
1536, Antialiasing on, Radiosity On. My machine: Pentium II - 266 MHz,
grafic card ATI - 8 MB, 192 MB RAM, size of Virtual Memory 250 MB, Free disc
memory - 800 MB. I am rendering this picture 3 days and 7 hours and is ready
74 % only. On the bottom bar is remark 0 PPS.
Please, would you be so very kind to send me some information about my
setting and advice if it is all O.K.? Or I make some fault (error)?
Please, please.
All the best for you,
raven
stu### [at] iolcz

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raven wrote in message <367c169f.0@news.povray.org>...
>Hallo,
>I work with Rhinoceros as registerd user and with the Rhino I use for
>designing MoRay as registered user too. For rendering I use your very great
>program POVRay 3.0. This one is indeed very excellent in WIN NT4.0, all is
>O.K. But I have a little problem with rendering time. Now I render a scene
>with 349 objects, 7 spotlites and 4 AreaLights. On the bootom bar in MoRay
I
>read these values: 66572 V (69%), 107636 E (63%), in "Advanced" window I
>have set: Memory in kB to use for Vertices: 3000, Memory in kB to use for
>Edges: 2000, Minimum number of lines to draw before refreshing 1000,
Maximum
>number of lines to draw before refreshing 2000.


None of these has ANY effect on povray only Moray


 The picture has size: 2048 x
>1536, Antialiasing on, Radiosity On.

Be prepared to wait  both radiousity and Anti-Aliasing take longer (as does
adding more light sources and media/halo and a few other things)

 My machine: Pentium II - 266 MHz,
>grafic card ATI - 8 MB,


graphics card doesn't help nor hinder renders

 192 MB RAM, size of Virtual Memory 250 MB, Free disc
>memory - 800 MB. I am rendering this picture 3 days and 7 hours and is
ready
>74 % only. On the bottom bar is remark 0 PPS.

0 PPS just means it is taking longer then a second to do a pixel nothing
wrong there.

>Please, would you be so very kind to send me some information about my
>setting and advice if it is all O.K.? Or I make some fault (error)?


Nope no error, radiousity adds temendously to render time. you will soon
learn povray (and other ray tracers) will teach you patience on a scale
unknown in history.  :-)

btw  post your image on the binaries group for us when it finishes please
:-)

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Yeah, he's certainly right about that!!!  Radiosity is a very advanced
rendering method and due to the incredible amount of calculations necessary
to work out diffuse light reflection (well, at least the ambient values
anyway) it could take up to 20 sec to do a pixel with a very big and
complexly lit scene.  My advice is that if you don't need radiosity (ie.
you're not doing architectural rendering or visualisation) turn it off,
because it may just make things take longer with the final rendering not
looking much different...

(but hey, if you have a SPARC, SGI Infinite Reality Monster or Cray II it
might be worth it :)

--
Lance.


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Personally I find that RAD adds a certain something to my renders, so i tend
to use it on the final scene, and leave it rendering over night..

Rick

Lance Birch wrote in message <367c7d2e.0@news.povray.org>...
>Yeah, he's certainly right about that!!!  Radiosity is a very advanced
>rendering method and due to the incredible amount of calculations necessary
>to work out diffuse light reflection (well, at least the ambient values
>anyway) it could take up to 20 sec to do a pixel with a very big and
>complexly lit scene.  My advice is that if you don't need radiosity (ie.
>you're not doing architectural rendering or visualisation) turn it off,
>because it may just make things take longer with the final rendering not
>looking much different...
>
>(but hey, if you have a SPARC, SGI Infinite Reality Monster or Cray II it
>might be worth it :)
>
>--
>Lance.
>
>
>---
>For the latest MAX plug-ins, images and much more, go to:
>The Zone - http://come.to/the.zone
>
>

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