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In an effort to keep this thread visible, I am posting a link back to the original thread, but we will be continuing the conversation here. It began as a discussion of bucket size, and its effect on render time. It quickly evolved into quite a great thread with a ton of useful info. We even wound up with help directly from e-Frontier!

Yes, excellent. That was indeed a very useful thread. :] Fish

Thank you Destro75 for clarifying and discussing said bucket size etc. A lot of good info and input from EF as well ;0

hey destro, many thanks are extended to you and several others who had useful tips...guess what, I finally got my image rendered!!! HAPPY DANCES ALL OVER DA PLACE it rendered perfectly at 3000x2500 and I have struggled for weeks now to get beyond the Adding Object or Rendering Shadow Map phase...and ya know what I think made a huge difference? your tip about max texture sizes...they were set at 4096 in the Firefly renderer and I changed them to 3000, matching my max render size...I think increasing my bucket size probably helped too, I set it at 128...so, thanks again! Karen :D

Destro, Remember, it's all relative to what is in your scene. Or, what you are asking from your settings in renderoptions and matroom. Case in point (attached). Rendered in P5. It would not render until bucket was dropped (to 4). 1024x1024. This is with 2gigs of ram.

Thank you for all the tips, there is a lot of good info here.

Why not turn this thread into a tutorial, and memorialize it in the tutorial section?

Karen, I am happy to hear that! Glad this helped you get your image done! Richardson, hmm, interesting. I didn't really think about it before, but yes, that does make sense. If there are more things to calculate in the same "pass" then of course with a larger bucket you are, in effect, throwing more gasoline on the fire. Good point! I am glad so many have found this thread useful. I will think about making a tutorial, but I have never had the patience to do it before. Besides, in this forum, we have had numerous people give their input, which has improved the quality of the answers. I mean, given all of the OT posts in the forum of late, I for one am happy we have finally got one going that doesn't deal with politics, business, etc. and has returned to the reason most of us probably came here in the first place, to discuss Poser ;-)

glad to see this in the forum. Very usefull...

Yes this was a good tip. I changed the bucket size to 500 hundred and the scene I tested on rendered about 80 % faster, but when I tried with 1000 there was no furhter improvement. Best, Mats

Hi Thread! I wanted to add this link here. destro has been invaluble in helping me with some simuliar problems and i think that this link/thread would greatly augment this discussion as well! So here it is!
Ariana

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2734591&ebot_calc_page#message_2734591

Excellent thread !

Did anyone tried to change the "adaptive bucket" threshold and memory buffer ? I'm interested to know what are the better values.

DRAT!!!
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That link (posted in post 1) just gives me a "not found on this server" page :-(((

Cheers,
Diolma

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2350666&page=1

Here is the link again... Hope this one is working...

I noticed after installing SR3 that when rendering an animation as indivual frames
the Firefly render craps out if the bucket size is above 32.  I usually render at 256
for the bucket size for still images, but when I went to do animations I was just getting
garbage instead of images until I dropped the bucket size way down.

Many thx, semidieu - yup, that one worked for me:-))

Do NOT expect any further response from me today, as I read, absorb (and probably forget lots of ) the wisdom displayed in the linked thread...'cos it's nearly my bed-time. I can tell it's near my bed-time, 'cos I'm almost out of beer.. -- back to reading that thread, whilst beer lasts..

Cheers,
Diolma