Some great ideas here, I'll need to explore them, and I am Using MegaPOV 0.5

Thanks
Alan

"Chris Huff" <chr### [at] maccom> wrote in message
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> In article <39abd861$1@news.povray.org>, "Alan Nickerson"
> <ani### [at] mathsoftcom> wrote:
>
> > I thought radiosity added time to the rendering.
>
> For most scenes, it does. But if you have a large number of lights,
> using radiosity for lighting could be faster, especially when they are
> area lights. The idea is to remove all or most of the lights and use
> radiosity to simulate true area lighting.
>
>
> > I have the radiosity settings in the code, but they were not used
> > this time. Last time I used radiosity, after 48+ hours the scene was
> > not even 60% complete.
>
> Are you using MegaPOV? Are you trying to use settings from the official
> version in MegaPOV? Are you using MegaPOV in addition to the area
> lights, or as a replacement for them?
> MegaPOV radiosity is usually a lot faster, but it takes different
> settings.
>
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