raven opened this issue on Jun 25, 2009 · 1706 posts
FrankT posted Sat, 11 July 2009 at 2:55 PM
Quote - because 23 minutes for a white figure without any textures is really bad. i mean we are talking here about a model with plain white shading.
23 mins isn't that unusual for a GI render. Remember the amount of calculations that the render engine needs to do to figure out what the hell the light is doing, even in render engines that are optmised for GI. Firefly hasn't had a working GI before so cut it a bit of slack.
The render time is more affected by the poly count than the textures actually (from my experience anyway but I'm not an expert)
If you want a blindingly fast GI render engine, get Blender and sign up to the VRay beta