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Re: POV 3.5, Radiosity, and Multiple Passes??
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lugnet.cad.ray
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Tue, 28 Jan 2003 03:13:29 GMT
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I believe you are currently out of luck. The way radiosity is currently
set up in POV-Ray 3.5, multiple passes are required. That may or may
not change in future versions, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
I have a 450 MHz so I understand your frustration. Fortunately, I have
access to a 1.7 GHz which is about three to four times faster when
rendering.
Travis Dickinson
http://home.sc.rr.com/sivar/
Tim Courtney wrote:
> I'm rendering an image at 800x600 in POV-Ray 3.5 right now, on an old 400mhz
> (ouch!) computer. It's using radiosity settings Jeroen de Haan provided to
> me over email. I've done other renders with these settings successfully,
> that usually take about 3 hours to complete.
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> As of now its been 3:40 on this render, and it's still in the stage of
> rendering large blocks. This image contains a small MOC and a minifig, one
> transparent element and two chrome elements (coins). I would expect it to be
> hung up like this when rendering the fine quality final image, but it's
> still rendering blocky in the first couple passes! Is there a way to turn
> these first passes off, as they seem to have nothing to do with the final
> image? Please help, thanks!!
>
> -Tim
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>
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| (...) :-( It's been 7hrs 41 mins, and it's still halfway through rendering the second-to-last, rather blurry pass. I can't understand for the life of me why rendering such little detail takes so long, I would expect this from the actual final (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| I'm rendering an image at 800x600 in POV-Ray 3.5 right now, on an old 400mhz (ouch!) computer. It's using radiosity settings Jeroen de Haan provided to me over email. I've done other renders with these settings successfully, that usually take about (...) (21 years ago, 27-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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