(I am curious about that old MP Camera: how did it work, and is the current Slave Cameras approach a matter of it doing a more efficient usage of processing power or because of some unparallelizable render feature showstopper?)
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This was using the old Mac OS 9 MP plugins. Not the most efficient MP support!
The only portion of the old MP camera that was faster was the “sampling pixels” part of the rendering process. This was very fast. But this often only accounted for 10-20% of the total render time, so It did not gain much overall.
The smoke and fog rendering slowed this portion down considerably, so the MP helped a lot.
Remember though, this was a LONG time ago. If I remember correctly EI had JUST added Raytracing, (or maybe it still was Phong only? I don’t quite remember).
In any case It did not make sense to buy any MP machines for EI rendering.
We used the Daystars mainly for very high res Photoshop work.
Dave.
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