Nieminen Juha <war### [at] punarastascstutfi> wrote...
> Nathan Kopp <Nat### [at] koppcom> wrote:
> : radiosity uses perturbed surface normal (bumps, wrinkles, etc)
>
>   Why is it so slow with them? My test scene (included below) takes
> 1 minute and 10 seconds to render without the normal map. Adding the
normal
> map takes more than 10 minutes to render.
>   If this can't helped, then I think that it should be an option in the
> radiosity-block (turned off by default).
>
>   And another thing: It doesn't seem to work very well. Just try it:
>

:-(  I hadn't tested that very much.  I was just going off of a suggestion
made in one of the newsgroups.  I'll take a closer look and probably post a
an update by the end of this week or the beginning of next.

-Nathan

Post a reply to this message