Gilles Tran wrote:
> 
> I've noticed that too. Transparency is already very difficult to handle with
> radiosity, but I've almost given up on using radiosity + transparency + ior. In
> my IRTC "contrast" picture, I had to remove a few bottles because of that. In
> another instance, 1 single bottle with ior made the render impossibly slow, and
> not only when it reached the bottle. Just removing the ior made it...
> acceptably slow.
> 

Maybe a 'no_radiosity' flag would be useful, just like 'no_reflection' or
'no_image'.  There is not much point in calculating radiosity on a
completely transparent object anyway.  

Christoph

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