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Clondike7
04-15-2008, 01:21 PM
Hi guys. This may be a very newb question but I can't figure it out. I'm using Maya 8.0 and rendering with Mental Ray. When I have 1 light in the scene emitting photons my render takes about 1min 30sec for 1 frame. If I add a 2nd light in the scene, renders kick up to 10min+. I even lowered the photons to incredibly low settings (1,000 photons, instead of 1,000,000) and it still won't go under 10min. I'm doing an interior rendering and would like to have most of my interior lights casting photons but it seems I can't even do more than 1.
Lordstormdragon
04-15-2008, 09:44 PM
...it's more an issue with your lights themselves, and not photons / GI. What are you shadow settings like? What else have you added to the scene?

If you select the second light and Ctrl-H hide it, then re-render, does your render time revert to the original or is it still 10 minutes?

Just trying to isolate the issue...
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