I will have a look at the refinement passed. In general rendermap is extremely slow compared to a normal render and as far as I know there is no progress or completion info for it either On Aug 31, 2012 8:13 AM, "Sven Constable" <[email protected]> wrote:
> hm, MR does uses all cores and all CPUs for FG at least for standard > rendering. Only the old photon mapping GI/caustics) is single threaded, if > I rember correctly (the newer irridiance particles uses always all cores > and cpus, even sattelite CPUs). **** > > ** ** > > In terms of FG only: **** > > In some cases ( or most) you can speed up the FG with using 'Refinment > Passes' under the advanced options. Feels like It scales better on the > cores than the default settings because it uses the MR tile order. It > doesn't "hang" that much on certain FG tiles that happens sometimes with > large FG maps. Maybe it depends on the scene but you should give it a try > next time when you're having 8h of FG calculation. **** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *James De Colling > *Sent:* Friday, August 31, 2012 0:29 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Small Annoying Things**** > > ** ** > > another one...and I do like that term, Mental Delay**** > > ** ** > > MR only uses 1 core to calculate FG points (in rendermap anyway) doing a > 4k rendermap with FG just took me 8 hours...to calculate the FG..11 cores > sitting idle > > On Friday, August 31, 2012, Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:**** > > Users can't use the python that's installed with the Linux > distribution. They need to use the version that's compatible with the > pywin module compiled with MainWin by the development team and > installed in the Softimage folder. It's not obvious to update pywin > with new versions of python because no one else uses pywin on linux or > gcc (obviously!) and therefore it's usually not just a recompile. we > originally paid the creator of the package to port it for us > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Chris Chia <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I don't understand. You can't get Linux Python to work? > > > > Chris > > > > On 30 Aug, 2012, at 11:50 PM, "Alan Fregtman" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > Not being able to use the system Python is a little annoying too. In > Linux we're stuck in Py2.5 because only the built-in Softimage Python works. > **** >
