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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 17:10:35 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.ray, Tim Courtney writes:
> 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.
Can you share those settings? On the radiosity block, try playing with the
"count" parameter. Lower settings (even 1) will speed up the rendering, but
sometimes they cause gross artifacts that dissapear at higher settings.
> 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!!
MEGAPOV is known to be several times faster than POV (which is not a very
fast renderer to start with). I think the latest build is 100% povray 3.5
compatible.
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Message has 3 Replies:
 | | Re: POV 3.5, Radiosity, and Multiple Passes??
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| (...) Tim, please share the settings if people ask. All other people can e-mail me directly. Note that these settings (or actually this set of .INC files) in a sort of Beta-state. A finale set will be available from my web site a.s.a.p. (...) All (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: POV 3.5, Radiosity, and Multiple Passes??
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| (...) Ok, thanks. (...) Hmm... good thought. I just downloaded 1.0 and installed it on that computer. Re-rendering the same scene, and I removed all transparent and chrome elements. We'll see how this goes. Thanks, Miguel! Also, I emailed you the (...) (21 years ago, 28-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
| | | Re: POV 3.5, Radiosity, and Multiple Passes??
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| (...) I'd love to utilize MegaPOV but when I render a scene with MegaPOV enabled all I get is a black picture and a no objects in scene warning. Does MegaPOV utilize some new object coding or am I doing something wrong. -Orion Here's my code (...) (21 years ago, 29-Jan-03, to lugnet.cad.ray)
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| | POV 3.5, Radiosity, and Multiple Passes??
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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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