ok these are good conditions of entry for this renderer battle arena one must not spend more than 30 minutes on combined material config / lighting / render knob tweaking.
but you can let it go for 2 hours...! sheesh, I'd be very unhappy with 5 minutes :) but its a good proof that more time = better quality..? On 14 February 2013 09:38, Toonafish <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > >
