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17 Aug 2024 20:24:06 EDT (-0400)
  Re: binoculars 2  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 27 Aug 2001 11:37:19
Message: <3B8A69C9.E9F80E15@gmx.de>
JRG wrote:
> 
> Now the lenses are hidden nomore.
> Question for radiosity wizards: this scene took 1h and 45 minutes to render,
> so I decided to try with better settings: count 150 pretrace_start 0.08
> pretrace_end 0.01 error_bound 0.1 and recursion_limit 2 but the results were
> much worse! Many little artifacts, circle shaped... what is wrong? Should I
> lower error_bound? Perhaps someone could suggest me some really high
> radiosity settings...

recursion_limit 1 should be sufficient here, i would try something like:

radiosity {           
    count 300   
    nearest_count 7       
    error_bound 0.1
    recursion_limit 1         
}

lower error_bound could look good, but you have to use higher count then
too.

Christoph

-- 
Christoph Hormann <chr### [at] gmxde>
IsoWood include, radiosity tutorial, TransSkin and other 
things on: http://www.schunter.etc.tu-bs.de/~chris/


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