Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Best render setting for Poser 7

ladyperiwinkle opened this issue on Mar 09, 2009 · 6 posts


IsaoShi posted Mon, 09 March 2009 at 2:40 PM

Ooh, I forgot about raytrace bounces.

The correct label for this is:  "Maximum number of raytrace bounces". If the scene requires recursive raytraces to calculate refraction and reflection, this number specifies the maximum number of recursions that will be used. Generally you can leave this set to 1, but it does depend on your scene contents. If you are rendering materials with refraction and reflection, then you will need to increase it.

The Poser manual implies that setting this number to a higher value than the scene requires will waste computation time. Experts say that it will have no effect on render time, because the render will only use as many bounces as it needs for each raytrace. I can't say which is correct because I have not tested it, but I tend to believe the experts - or one of them, at least.

Izi

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