clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> mone schrieb:
>
> > I have not much experience with radiosity. If I recollect it correctly the
> > calculated values are somehow attached to the object and can be stored in a
> > file? So it possibly doesn't matter much when the image size is increased with
> > radiosity? Maybe the experts can say more about this :).
>
> In a perfect world, all radiosity samples you ever need would be
> gathered during radiosity pretrace, which is basically independent of
> screen resolution.
>
> In practice, most people don't set the radiosity parameters high enough
> to have pretrace do a good enough job; in that case, a high-res image
> may add more samples during final trace than a low-res image.
>

I see. So as a rule of thumb it would be good to use the save_file/load_file
options together with high quality parameters for a low-res image, so the
sampled data can be used again for the high-res image?

Regards,

Simone

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