POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : A thousand pardons... : Re: Thanks. Server Time
4 Oct 2024 17:15:08 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Thanks.  
From: Nathan Kopp
Date: 7 Mar 1999 22:59:03
Message: <36E34AEA.FA780DD8@Kopp.com>
Anthony Bennett wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure what slows the rendering down so much. I suspect it's the area
> lights, as the media renders pretty fast. The My_Stone texture is also quite slow
> rendering.
> 

The media renders pretty fast?  since when?  ;-)

If you're using scattering media, adding area lights will make it go very
slow.  (emitting/absorbing: no problems, but scattering is slow.)

Although, maybe you're using a very low sampling rate... which would lead
to lots of noise...

-Nathan


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