"folkert" <fol### [at] vanheusdencom> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to render a not so complicated scene: it's only a box with some parts
> cut out. In the box a couple (9) of lights.
> Now rendering this on a quadcore system in 1280x1024 (-A 0.1) takes days!
> This is the result of the script with 1 lightsource (takes 10 hours to render):
> http://vanheusden.com/pov/test4c.png
> The script with 9 lights can be found here:
> http://vanheusden.com/pov/pov-slow.zip
>
> Has anyone any suggestions how i can speed up the rendering? I'm very much
> surprised that 1 or 9 lights makes such a difference. But with one light it
> still takes almost half a day to render.

Well, it looks like it's not "only a box with some parts cut out".
There's at least two reflective planes with what looks like reflection 1.0.
This will greatly increase the number of rays shot.
Also, is the box material reflective? If so you have your answer why it's so
slow.

Regards
Aydan

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