With "User" render settings, the render times can be surprisingly low - but you might want to boost the numbers somewhat over what i show, to get better quality. I went for shorter render times.

But you're right, Radiosity has its price, since it has to evaluate the brightness relationship of every pixel to every other pixel. Pretty amazing to me that a personal computer can even be coaxed into doing that.

I agree that it's not wise to use Radiosity where you don't really need it.

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Message edited on: 01/23/2006 11:32