P Brewer wrote:
> 
>       adaptive 1

That's a MegaPOV feature.  And the adaptive pretrace is something you 
have to use with care to make it work successfully.  And in this kind of 
scene it will hardly be very useful.

> 
> The scene consists of three golf balls and a putter sitting on a 2000 blade
> square patch of grass mesh copied 580 times to fill the visible scene. I'm
> using a focal blur of 90 samples, and the above radiosity. I'm rendering at
> 1680x1050. Is there any improvement I can make to my radiosity settings to
> ease memory usage?

That's quite impossible to tell from the settings alone.  Decreasing 
error_bound and nearest_count will surely be what to start with.

Christoph

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