POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : POVRay's Radiosity : Re: POVRay's Radiosity Server Time
29 Jul 2024 06:17:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POVRay's Radiosity  
From: Tim Nikias v2 0
Date: 13 Jul 2003 10:01:19
Message: <3f11662f@news.povray.org>
Whoot!

Max_Trace_level set to 256, pretrace start and end to 1,
what do I get?

Stack overflow! :-O

And restarting the image after a reboot doesn't help, it'll
gag again after two lines. And all this on 240x180 image...

I'll post a notice on this shortly, but perhaps my insane
settings aren't meant to be... :-)

-- 
Tim Nikias v2.0
Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights


> Hm, can't seem to find any images with the web-interface,
> and I haven't got all posts on my HD... :-)
>
> Still, the note about using pretrace start and end of 1
> was good, I'll fumble with that. And I didn't realize
> that max_trace_level would be that important as well,
> but you're right, again, I should've thought about that
> earlier. Still, higher max_trace_level isn't needed
> desperately, as you've surely noticed with my other
> pics... But perhaps I can keep more detailed radiosity
> with higher trace_level...
>
>
> -- 
> Tim Nikias v2.0
> Homepage: http://www.digitaltwilight.de/no_lights
>
>
> >
> >
> > "Tim Nikias v2.0" wrote:
> > >
> > > What kind of settings? I've been experimenting all weekend
> > > now. I've noticed that using pretrace_start .5 and pretrace_end .01
> > > don't make a difference when compared to start and end at .01.
> > >
> > > If you know something we don't, then don't hold it back! :-)
> >
> > I have shown samples with the effect of rendering with and without
> > pretrace before.  You will of course have difficulties to spot any
> > differences when using high quality settings which lead to a very smooth
> > lighting anyway.  For tracing without pretrace set both start and end to
> > 1.
> >
> > Christoph
> >
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