onnetz opened this issue on Jun 11, 2007 · 61 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 12 June 2007 at 5:38 PM
The number one reason renders take forever is too many lights.
Every time I load some "great" lightset, and it has 6 to 10 lights, I get ticked off at how long it takes to render. And on top of that the results are silly - the lighting looks completely arbitrary and fake.
For a portrait like this I use 3, an IBL, a key light (spot or infinite) and a rim light (spot). My portrait renders always take less than a minute.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)