"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Hola,
>
> after 18h6m20s render time on 2.4gz P4 512MB ram I believe she's a done deal
> ....
>
> I used focal blur (i think gives better results than AA) and tweeked (not
> much) the radiosity settings that I got from a tutorial, the tree was
> generated with maketree macro and the hills in background is a height_field
> made with world machine.
>
> I really like how the glass turned out .... the reflections of other objects
> in the scene and the slight distortion of objects seen through the flasks.
>
> I wasn't much of a radiosity fan .... too much cpu time with not enough pay
> back .... well I've changed my mind.
>
> Cheers Jim

Focal blur is doing nothing for you in this image, except increase your
render time. If you use the proper AA settings, you can get pretty much the
same effect with a quicker render. What settings were you using?

 - dan B hentschel

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