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29 Jul 2024 12:17:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Distance affects render speed?  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 26 Apr 2002 13:54:41
Message: <3cc99460@news.povray.org>
Hugo wrote:

> Hi, just a small question:
> 
> Why does light from a big distance slow down rendering? My guess: it's got
> to do with the nature of floats. Is there anything I should know to keep
> an optimal speed? Avoid big scale of numbers?

 Do you have a sky_sphere on the scene? I ask because I had a similar 
experience, but the problem was that I placed my light_source outside the 
sky_sphere. 

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Jaime Vives Piqueres

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