Can the radiosity data be collected in parallel or does one computer have to
calculate it for the entire scene?

Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> jhu nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 09/07/2006 12:46:
> > Quick question. Let's say I have a room full of computers. Using all of
> > these computers to render non-radiosity images is pretty easy. However, is
> > there some way to render radiosity-based images in parallel somehow? The
> > times I've tried, the image looks wrong after being stitched together. I
> > can't seem to find it in a faq or anything similar.
> >
> >
> Use a two pass method.
> First pass: set pretrace_end to a low value. It can help to use a low value for
low_error_factor to
> collect some extra data. You want to collect as much radiosity data as possible so
you will have
> less sampling to do during the final render. Save the radiosity values collected.
> Second pass, parallel pass, you need to set always_sample to no. Load the previously
saved radiosity
> data. Set pretrace_start 1 pretrace_end 1.
>
> --
> Alain
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