The light got of hand quick in this image. I cut the photons WAY back on
this using Nathan's phd variable set to '5.'

I may cut the light intensity and try again, but I like the results so far.

Partial stats:

Pentium 200 MMX w/ 32 Megs (slow RAM)

Shot 94850 photons
Stored 308970 photons

Peak memory usage 17,814,917

Parse min 47 sec

Trace time hrs.37Min.26Secs

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Do you have control of those green spots? Or not...?
Almost looks to me like you may need that ignore_photons keyword in the
objects. I don't really know about it yet, but had heard something to
the effect that it would remove the caustics which tend to over brighten
inside a object, yet maybe leave the external caustics still.
A personal observation, the reflection gets too busy for me, as though
crowded or chaotic? confusing? whatever... Remember to pay no attention
to everything someone says :)


GrimDude wrote:
> 
> The light got of hand quick in this image. I cut the photons WAY back on
> this using Nathan's phd variable set to '5.'
> 
> I may cut the light intensity and try again, but I like the results so far.
> 
> Partial stats:
> 
> Pentium 200 MMX w/ 32 Megs (slow RAM)
> 
> Shot 94850 photons
> Stored 308970 photons
> 
> Peak memory usage 17,814,917
> 
> Parse min 47 sec
> 
> Trace time hrs.37Min.26Secs
> 
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> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet
> 
>  [Image]

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Bob Hughes wrote in message <36F### [at] aolcom>...
>Do you have control of those green spots? Or not...?
>Almost looks to me like you may need that ignore_photons keyword in the
>objects. I don't really know about it yet, but had heard something to
>the effect that it would remove the caustics which tend to over brighten
>inside a object, yet maybe leave the external caustics still.
>A personal observation, the reflection gets too busy for me, as though
>crowded or chaotic? confusing? whatever... Remember to pay no attention
>to everything someone says :)
>

Yes, I added ignore_photons to everything *except* the mirror surfaces,
which I wanted to test fully. Afterwards, I turned the photons down on the
mirror items alone, and the result was much better, but at the same time I
went too far the other way.

So, I'll keep playing.

Thanks for replying Bob.

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Ah, it was textures alone (if thats right) I was seeing, kind of neat
ones.


GrimDude wrote:
> 
> Yes, I added ignore_photons to everything *except* the mirror surfaces,
> which I wanted to test fully. Afterwards, I turned the photons down on the
> mirror items alone, and the result was much better, but at the same time I
> went too far the other way.
> 
> So, I'll keep playing.
> 
> Thanks for replying Bob.
> 
> GrimDude
> vos### [at] arkansasnet

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