On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 08:44:33 -0400, TonyB
<ben### [at] panamaphoenixnet> wrote:

>> I got you a 75% decrease on rendering time if you use layered crackle
>> textures.  What more do you want? :)
>
>=) Can you give a small explanation on how you got this speed increase? (black
>magic, voodoo and/or miracles don't count).

Crackle textures cache the list of centers.  Formerly, this cache was
in a global structure, so it was shared between all crackles.  If you
had more than one in your scene, particularly if they were layered,
the cache was not valid as often as it could have been.  I made the
cache part of the individual texture information, and there's your
speed increase.  As I said, though, it's only on layered crackle
textures.

>> The POV-Team has a patch for this.  I don't know if it will make it
>> into the 3.1g Windows release or not.  Even if it doesn't, I'll make a
>> mental note to fix it in the superpatch.
>
>How come the Team doesn't mention these things? Oh, and thank you Mr. Parker,
>I'm looking forward to getting my PPS correctly reported. =)

I mentioned having fixed the problem, in the forum in which the
problem was reported.

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