"triple_r" <rreusser [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Here's the file with the trick.  Render time for me is about 5 hours on 1 core
> of an Intel 2.1 GHz Core 2 Duo.

>  #if(0) <== extra if without end

>  #if(1)
>   blur_samples 3000
>   confidence 0.999999
>   variance 1/100000000000
>  #end

I'm playing with those settings.  variance is extremely low!  Is that really
needed?

> global_settings{
>  radiosity{
>   pretrace_start 0.08
>   pretrace_end 0.005
>   count 250
>   error_bound 0.08
>   recursion_limit 2
>  }
> }

I've saved radiosity from a first pass and am reusing it with the pretrace steps
at 1.  Also, make sure you put "always_sample no" at the second pass...

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