"Mark Wagner" <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
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>
> 25ct <25c### [at] lineonenet> wrote in message <3bdf03d0@news.povray.org>...
> >  What do most of you do when you want to see what happens in a scene if
> >you've included something heavy in it, like scattering media? In other
> >words, how do you adjust settings without going through a two hour render
> >just to see if the settings that you've adjusted are correct or not?
>
> For rough adjustment of a media-intensive scene, I'll often render at
> resolutions as small as 80x60 or 30x40.  After the rough adjustments are
> done, I'll render at a higher resolution for the fine adjustments, but
only
> render a small piece of the full scene at a time.

Same here, but 80x60 is my minimum in my Quickres.ini (Secondary INI).
Can use method 2 in MegaPOV, or v3.5 now, with very low samples and
intervals but it seldom gives an idea of what the media will look like with
better settings.

Bob H.

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