Thomas de Groot wrote:
> I need your expert comments :-)
> 
> This is the first serious render of the scene with radiosity. It is a 2-pass 
> job (first gathering radiosity data on an image half the size of this one; 
> took about 5+ hours; second pass was just about 45 minutes). There are still 
> ugly artifacts visible, especially on the columns. What is the best way to 
> go from here? I include the radiosity settings used so far. Normal and media 
> are off; Megapov settings were used

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).

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.

Christoph

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