I have only found a vast improvemt over the 4x4 area light when i use 3 4x4
lights each aligned along on of the 3 axis - sort of like the peice of graph
paper used by someone here - forget who!

however, i have rended some images with upto 30x30 lights, and was very
impressed with the results, especially for simulating sunlight..

Rick

Simen Kvaal <sim### [at] studentmatnatuiono> wrote in message
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> >Average pentium type computer (I'm ashgamed to admit I don't know the
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> >The 3 hours comes from a 10x10 area light, and a focal vlur with 100
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> I see... But I don't think the 10x10 improved the quatlity that much. Have
> you tried 3x3? 4x4? Maybe it would me just as nice and one third the
> rendering time? Maybe it looks crappy, but have you tried? I never use
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> much myself...
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