George Pantazopoulos wrote:
> 
> Is the 3.5 team doing anything about the radiosity problem that occurs when
> multiple computers are assigned to render pieces of the same frame? See Web
> page here: http://www.wozzeck.net/images/pmp/ It would be nice to have an
> official solution to the problem, even though it seems not to be a simple
> problem. Any comments welcome.

There's a very commonly used method to render radiosity scenes in stripes
developed by Gilles Tran.  You just set pretrace_start and pretrace_end to
1 and only use the samples calculated during final trace.  This works very
well with low error_bound, but there could be problems and speed
disadvantages with higher values.  Rendering the different stripes on
different machines should not be a problem.  

Another possibility is to calculate all radiosity samples in advance, save
them and using this data for all the machines rendering the scene.

Christoph

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