"clipka" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "TomAust" <aus### [at] aust-manufakturde> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > this image shows a detail of a building rendered in Beta29/30 and Beta30rad1.
> > The whole rendering shows the complete building and has a resolution of
> > W4500xH3000.
> > Settings are equal except nearest_count and low_error_factor at the suggestion
> > of clipka:
> >
> >  //nearest_count 1
> >  //low_error_factor 0.5
> >  recursion_limit 1
> >
> > On Vista64
> > QuadCore @2.66GHz
> > the rendertime was 23min with Beta29/30
> > and 220min with Beta30rad1.
>
> Are you aware that commenting-out the nearest_count setting gives you a default
> value of 5?
>

Of course, I commented out these two points only for the rendering with
Beta29/30, which was the last run.

> Anyway, this starts to seriously bug me. From my test renders I had the
> impresson that serious slowdown occured only at higher recursion_limit values,
> not with single-bounce shots. Now all reports coming in seem to indicate
> otherwise.
>

Oh, I really don't want to injure you, you are my hope! ;)

> Blood-stained excrements of a male bovine.
>

Hm, where is my dictionary?!

> I can imagine only one thing that could cause this difference in a single-bounce
> shot: Effective trace depth.
>
> What are your global trace_limit and adc_bailout values?
>

No special settings here, in fact not set at all, so they are default.

> (Would you be willing to disclose the scene file so I could do some toying
> around with it? If public posting is not an option, you might send it to
> christoph <at> lipka-koeln <dot> de.)
>

Yes, of course, but with many, many incs, declarations, macros, etc. and a bunch
of selfcreated fileendings - perhaps a reason for the slowdown?
So I should use your mailadress.


> (BTW, the building looks strikingly familiar - I fancy that I've seen the
> original somewhere in the south of Cologne... Zollstock maybe?)

The renderings are visualizations for a planned building in Bonn (so another
point to keep it in confidence) and mostly architects are pretty influenced by
mainstream... ;)
But what a coincidence, neighbour!
Greetings from Bickendorf, not as bad as its reputation!

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