dlm wrote:
> Will you go for blood in the final?

I'd like to, but not sure how to go about it...

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"Tim Cook" <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote in message 
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  Ooh, looking good to me Tim! Can't wait to see the final... :)


  ~Steve~

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Oh my!  I love it!

Not sure what else to say, but I felt it was worthy of praise.

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Jeremy
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> More samples, and an array of 45 spotlights behind the figure instead of
1.


And you call that "a few lights"?!

I was *wondering* how media with some lights could take so long! =)

Honestly though, is there really a significant visible difference between
the 45-light version and the single light version? Are you using the 45
lights to create an area light effect or what?

 - Slime
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Slime wrote:
> Honestly though, is there really a significant visible difference between
> the 45-light version and the single light version? Are you using the 45
> lights to create an area light effect or what?

Yeah...area lights plus media are REALLY slow, compared to just using an 
array of spot or point lights.

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> Yeah...area lights plus media are REALLY slow, compared to just using an
> array of spot or point lights.

I find that very surprising... what evidence do you have that points to that
conclusion?

 - Slime
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> Preview render of what's currently on day 8, at line 25 on my other
> machine...this one with simpler media settings and only one spotlight.
A very nice and poetic image!
;-)
Paolo

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Hi,

there is something odd happening with the wings. See the attached file.

Or ist it just me?

Greetings,

Marc-Hendrik

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Slime wrote:
> I find that very surprising... what evidence do you have that points to that
> conclusion?

um...*runs some test renders with a sphere with media*

array of 3x3 point lights:  31 s
3x3 area light, adaptive 0: 11 s (13 s with jitter)
3x3 area light, adaptive 1: 22 s (24 s with jitter)
3x3 area light, adaptive 2: 23 s (25 s with jitter)
...
hrm.  I stand corrected.

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Marc-Hendrik Bremer wrote:
> there is something odd happening with the wings. See the attached file.

Vertical line is cause by shadow cast by no_image no_reflection box used 
to shape the spotlight to be like the array of spotlights in the other 
image.

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