"Christoph Hormann" <chr### [at] gmxde> schreef in bericht 
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> I don't understand your use of the MegaPOV adaptive error_bound - if you 
> use it in the first pass you will loose control over the accuracy of the 
> radiosity data taken and stored.  Furthermore using tighter settings in 
> the final pass will increase the number of samples taken there (and using 
> always_sample off at the same time could lead to low quality).
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Thanks Christoph! I had not realised the consequences of the adaptive 
error_bound in the first pass. Quite simply I thought it would - at the same 
time - speed up calculations and increase accuracy! Well well well... Things 
are never as simple as one believes...

> I would try to decrease recursion_limit to 2 and use the saved time to 
> improve quality if that does not change the appearance too much.
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Yes, the recursion_limit is an issue I have been thinking about. I had 
already tried as a test a value of 1 but that was ugly.

Thanks for your comments. Much appreciated!

Thomas

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