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18 Aug 2024 00:17:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Apartment rad (take 2)  
From: Xplo Eristotle
Date: 13 Jul 2001 17:22:40
Message: <3B4F66FF.1DC044A@infomagic.com>
Christoph Hormann wrote:
> 
> Thomas Lake wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> > Here are the radiosity settings I'm currently using:
> >
> > pretrace_start 0.01
> > pretrace_end   0.005
> > recursion_limit 1
> > error_bound 0.6
> > nearest_count 10
> > count 1000
> >
> 
> You should probably decrease 'adc_bailout', the suggested value is
> '0.01 / brightest ambient object'

Assuming he's using MegaPOV, I would actually suggest *increasing* it to
1. This is counterintuitive, but in my tests it seemed to give a small
speed boost without significantly affecting the image, whereas other
values had no useful effect.

-Xplo


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