bagginsbill opened this issue on Jun 01, 2009 ยท 57 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 02 June 2009 at 12:32 PM
But ... to get this kind of detail, I had to increase the number of samples. Each point in the render required samples equivalent to a ray-tracing depth of 100. Imagine trying to get Poser to do that with the renderer, instead of the shader, going through 100 layers of transparency. Impossible.
I was able to make each ray with slightly fewer nodes - just 9 instead of 12. So this is 922 nodes. This reaches my limit of tolerance for load times - it took 25 seconds just to load the shader.
Render time was not too bad - about 4 minutes. But I have some ideas about how to change my sampling strategy, which will let me increase speed by a factor of 10. If I can get this under a minute, I'll be happy.
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