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No doubt the refraction and reflection eating into the render time. You didn't
say what 'phd' was equal to but I suppose 1.
I was thinking when I first saw the pitcher that it might be non-smooth glass or
plastic but the clear refractions don't prove that out. A good candidate for
Chris Huff's transparency blurring patch.
All in all it seems the makings of a year long project if everything you say
were to be done, either that or render farm comes to mind, heh-heh.
Bob
"Equiprawn" <equ### [at] tinet ie> wrote in message
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| > That purple pitcher has too soft a highlight IMO, hate to say it because
| of the
| > tremendously long render time you endured.
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| Oh no worries. I was going for a frosted kind of plasticy (is that even a
| real word?) look.
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| > Any plans to try a speeded up, less photon-intensive, version or has it
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| > been done?
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| Maybe. I really need to learn exactly what each of the settings do, so I can
| balance quality with time. Though I am wondering what caused the long render
| time for my image. The jug, water and glass meshes have thousands and
| thousands of smooth triangles - could that be what took all the time, or was
| it just that I went overboard on my settings? In global settings I used :
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| photons{
| gather 20, 100
| radius 0.1*phd, 2, 2//, 0.1*phd
| autostop 0
| jitter .4
| expand_thresholds 0.2, 40
| load_file "jugwaterglass.ph"
| }
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| and then for the objects I used:
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| photons {
| separation 0.02*phd
| refraction on
| ignore_photons
| }
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| except for the two glasses which had reflective photons also.
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| Equiprawn
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