"fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message 
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> "triple_r" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
>> "fidos" <fid### [at] wanadoofr> wrote:
>> > 3 hours with mcpov for a RSOCP scene.
>>
>> Neat.  Three hours, eh?  I'll assume you need portals to get it to render 
>> that
>> quickly, even on a quad-core.  How do you set that up for toroidal lights
>> though?  Do you bound it by a sphere?  Do you approximate the tori with a 
>> mesh?
>>  Or maybe you have other tricks up your sleeve...
>>
>>  - Ricky
>
> No portal. There is too much light sources and portals would be too slow. 
> I use
> high number of primary diffuse rays (12).
>
> Attached the source of the scene.
>
> Regards,
> Fidos.
>
Can I ask how many passes this scenes took?

I'm just curious as I have it running atm and its on pass 14 and still very 
very blurry.  I dont have the CPU power you do but its been going to for 
twice as long allready.

Cheers Dre

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