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01-14-2002, 08:24 AM

are there any ways to significantly increase the speed of raytraced reflection calculations with high poly counts, other than adjusting the obvious options in the global raytracer settings rollout (I reduced the depth to 1 and switched to manual acceleration with the dual pipes option enabled but my rendering time still varies between 2 and 12 hours per frame)

you can download a short animation here:

test.avi (http://www.3dforge.de/videos/test.avi)

Matt-Clark

01-14-2002, 10:43 AM

Short of the settings you've already changed you can look into exluding objects from the raytracing, but to be honest Max's raytracer really doesn't take well to high-poly scenes in the way that newer renderers like Brazil do.

jonaz.dk

01-14-2002, 11:02 AM

well... there's always the hard way..

http://www.renderdrive.com/

;)

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