AS-- To reply to something that you said much earlier, I've never had this experience. I've found that it renders soft shadows much, much faster at 4RPP than it does on Regular Antialiasing--probably something to do with the different renderer that Premium uses.

The above image demonstrates this... regular antialiasing took 2 minutes, 31 seconds, whereas Premium at 4RPP took all of 21 seconds. This is why I recommend using Premium at 4RPP for test renders, because then you can see what it will look like with all of the Premium effects as you compose the scene (which to me makes a big difference in what I end up doing, especially so far as radiosity is concerned). Of course, it looks terrible at 4RPP, so for the final render you might want to think about using regular antialasing. Unfortunately, then you can't use the cool effects like radiosity and distance blur. Either way, though, you're looking at a really long render.

Message edited on: 10/24/2005 14:55