Quote - > Quote - i have a question for GI.

the bigger the 360 env image is the longer it renders right?
if we use a 256X256 360 image. would we still get good results with the GI rendering?

I'm not in the testing program, but I think it pretty unlikely that the resolution of any environment sphere image has a significant impact on render time.

Correct. Other than initial loading time (as with any image) the # pixels should have no impact on rendering speed.

However, I noticed that Poser Pro used to drop from 100% CPU to something like 4% CPU in certain situations involving reflections of a very high-resolution EnvSphere image. I believe this was a bug. I don't see this behavior in Poser 8 at all.

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