On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 15:54:59 +0000, Stephen wrote:

> On 23/12/2013 6:12 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Cycles is a pretty nice renderer, though - definitely worth a look. 
>> But yeah, exporting to POVRay is also a good option - there is (or used
>> to be) a POVRay export tool, in fact, but I think it was for 3.5.
> 
> I've used it a couple of times to see what it is like. The problem for
> me is that it is slow and grainy. I would rater use what little skils I
> have with materials in PovRay.

You have to increase the number of iterations to get it to look less 
grainy.  There's a setting for that, both in preview and in a final 
render.

Which is where an nVidia GPU comes in - it's capable of rendering the 
image to a high quality *very* quickly.  CPU rendering is incredibly slow 
by comparison.

> There is an exporter in development. I was helping to test it before I
> got too busy.

A new one?  Or an update to the old one?  URL?

Jim

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