On 06/06/2011 08:59 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 07.06.2011 01:40, schrieb Jim Holsenback:
>
>> Question about pretrace_end ... won't a smaller value make more of the
>> samples to be gathered in the final pass? I thought it was better to
>> shoot for having the final pass sample count about half the total.
>
> No. The smaller the pretrace_end, the higher the density the pretrace
> can theoretically produce, and the fewer therefore the spots missed
> during pretrace, which need to be sampled in the final pass (i.e. the
> render proper).
>
> (Theoretically we'd want the final pass sample count to be zero, but
> then we also want the render to finish in our lifetime.)

in addition to earlier changes I had to increase count to 384 ... it's 
not too darn bad, so I think it's worth the cycles to go to 512 for the 
beauty run. btw: I also corrected my (holy crap) spelling error in the sign.

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