Once face_off gave me these FF settings (copy/paste):

"Texture Filtering OFF
Shadows ON
Raytracing OFF (unless I've got Ambient Occlusion, R/Trace Shadows or Eye Reflects). If so, use 2 bounces.
Min Shading Rate 0.5 (lower if hair is rendering grainy)
Pixel Samples 3
Max Texture Size 4096
Max Bucket Size 64
Smooth Polys ON
Use Disp Maps ON
DOF usually OFF
3D Motion Blur OFF
Remove Backfacing Polys OFF

These setting produce crystal clear renders (check my gallery - they are all no postwork).

Based on these settings (r/trace off), with 1 or 2 lights with shadows ON, at 900x900 I wouldn't expect a render to take much more than 10mins - and that's with really BIG texturemaps. Once I add AO and r/trace eye reflects I'm looking at 30mins. And DOF will (depending on the fStop) blow that out to a couple of hours"

Hope it helps you. It helped me a lot :)

Message edited on: 12/21/2005 06:30

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