"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> 
> Needed another render of the 3com network card I did ages ago, this time
> with focal blur, 2 area lights and a touch of rad. tweaked the scene
> slightly and altered a lot of the settings for 3.5 (old was done with MP)

Nice, but the same old network card?  When do you make a motherboard? ;-)

> damn thing ate up over 200MB of ram and took 5 hours to render, weird thing
> being the ram usage without rad, or without focal blur was only around 50MB,
> and the render time was typically under 15minutes for either. yet putting
> the 2 together and it nearly choked.

You should try 'always_sample off', you possibly need to take the pretrace
at a larger size (and save the radiosity data there) but it should avoid
the additional samples being taken because of the many focal blur rays.

Christoph

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