POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Slow photons in RC5 : Re: Slow photons in RC5 Server Time
19 Nov 2024 01:27:08 EST (-0500)
  Re: Slow photons in RC5  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 26 May 2002 04:43:49
Message: <3cf0a045@news.povray.org>
In article <3cead5cf$1@news.povray.org> , "Mike Hough" <Ama### [at] aolcom>
wrote:

> I tried using photons in a scene recently and was suprised at how long it
> took to render it in 3.5 RC5.  I'm posting in this group in case I'm missing
> some subtle change in the photon syntax. The following scene at 320x240, AA
> 0.3 takes 19 seconds to render in MegaPOV 0.5 and 3 minutes 37 seconds to
> render in RC5.

POV-Ray 3.5 is *not* MegaPOV, in particular not such an old version of
MegaPOV.  You cannot just copy you scene one to one an expect it to work
exactly the same way.  There might be a million things wrong in your scene and
none has to do with POV-Ray 3.5.  Or you (accidentally) enabled any of a
number of other features in your scene that did not exists or were not enabled
by default in MegaPOV versions or POV-Ray 3.1.


    Thorsten

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