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25 Apr 2024 07:57:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Disable radiosity render stages?  
From: Anthony D  Baye
Date: 13 Jun 2019 15:35:00
Message: <web.5d02a4c0d8e71a88fd6b6fe10@news.povray.org>
Alain <kua### [at] videotronca> wrote:
> Le 19-06-13 à 01:46, Anthony D. Baye a écrit :
>
> >
> > What you can do, is disable what is called the "Vain Pretrace".  Then the
> > radiosity passes will only do a luminosity map (I think that's what it's called)
> > and skip the expensive color passes which have no effect on the final result.
> >
> > To do this, you can add -RVP to your command line.
> >
> > Regards,
> > A.D.B.
> >
> >
> >
>
> This don't disable the pretrace step, but it make it somewhat faster.

The odd thing was that it wasn't disabled by default when using -D (No display)

I don't know if this has changed or not, but I brought it up a while ago.

Regards,
A.D.B.


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