Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:

> > It's a Braun fan. Modeled mostly in Blender. The stand was also modeled in
> > Blender, but when I added a transparent color, rendering times became too long
> > (as in stuck at 0% for > 24 hours). So I remade the stand in Povray SDL instead.
> > Now render time is about 5 minutes. What is it about transparent meshes that
> > causes rendering times to slow down so much?
> >
> >
> >
>
> Tranparency in mesh should not cause such a slowdown. Maybe there was
> LOTS of triangles located inside the mesh, hiden by it's opacity...
> Try placing that problematic mesh in a merge to see if the slowdown
> still occurs.
>
>
> Alain

Just made a merge. Same problem: rendering remains stuck.

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