Try to use the PMC kernel. You should get better results in lesser time, especially on interior scenes...
Stephan 2013/2/14 Toonafish <ron...@toonafish.nl> > That would be swell. But I think we'd also might have to include setup > time then. I'm sure a with a lot of hours tweaking, testing and some smart > trickery you can get faster render speeds in a lot of renderers, but the > whole point with these unbiased renderers is that you hardly have to send > any time tweaking to get a realistic looking render. > > I think I spent about 30 minutes on the classroom scene adding and > adjusting materials and tweaking the lighting and camera before hitting the > render button. The only render optimization I did was switch from direct > lighting to path tracing. > > - Ronald > > > On 2/14/2013 2:00, Rob Chapman wrote: > > excellent...think we are missing Monsieurs Vray and 3delight.. and I do > believe Mitsuba san is due to arrive into the fray very soon.. or is this a > GPU versus CPU duel only.. clearly some conditions have to be met. the > classroom scene, is this to be the Field of honour? > > On 14 February 2013 00:49, Massimo Galluzzo <mass...@massimogalluzzo.it>wrote: > >> Time to smoke you all with Mental Ray >> >> > >