"BigCeef" <big### [at] mariner9fsnetcouk> wrote in message
news:39ea72f0@news.povray.org...
| Well, I was just experimenting further, and I found that by replacing the
| 4x4 area light with a point light, the render time per frame fell from 50
| mins to 9 mins! No way did I expect the area_light to hit render time so
| badly. Must be the way the motion_blur is calculated. Anyhow, the good
news
| is that it looks like my anim will be a fairly painless render after all.
|
| Also, jpeg really hurts these two images and I'm not sure why. Previous
post
| was at 85%, and this one was saved at 100%.

The red background, bad thing for jpg type (lossy) compression.
The blurring looks good.  Not terrible at 9 minutes a frame, not wonderfully
quick either.  As I understand it the blur is pretty much a multiple render,
no real optimization I don't think anyway.  I'm sure more of such animations
would be tried by people were it fast.  Good luck on it.

Bob

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