"IceflakeCS" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> Doctor John <j.g### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> > On 27/01/14 20:57, IceflakeCS wrote:
> > >
> > > Fantastic! Michael, and you others, thank you! This is all much clearer to me
> > > now. I'm not just new to POV-Ray, but to 3D rendering overall. Trying out
> > > different software and renderers at the moment, and I must say POV-Ray gives
> > > really nice, characteristic, results.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Lennie
> > >
> > >
> >
> > When you are ready to post them, I am sure we all would like to see some
> > of your images - since you seem to have long render times, they must be
> > fairly complex.
> >
> > Welcome to the community.
> >
> > John
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>
> Thank you John.
>
> But really, they are nothing special at all. At the moment I'm just fooling
> around with different scenes and settings. The reason they take so long to
> render is because of the radiosity function.
>
> Example 1
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/01.png
>
> Rendered with radiosity, render time 14+ hours
>
> Example 2
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10144729/POVRAY/02.png
>
> Rendered without radiosity, render time about 1.5 minutes.
>
> It's a big difference between those images, but not 14 hour difference.

Forgot to mentioned these were originally rendered in 3840x2160.

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