momodot opened this issue on Aug 22, 2009 · 33 posts
lkendall posted Sun, 23 August 2009 at 3:28 PM
Ouch! IDL does not like reflective surfaces, even when they do not use displacment. My 8gb, quad core computer with Vista 64 has been crancking away on a scene now for more than 24 hours and it is only 1/2 through the precalculation of indirect light. I am not even using Raytraced shadows as that slowed the render by more than twice as much. The only really complex thing in the render is a waterfall falling into a pool. IDL is only set to 25. The same scene without it renders in less than 10 minutes. It is hard to see how IDL will be a center piece to Poser 8 if it takes days to render scenes with that have reflections.
I hope SR1 can sqeeze some more speed into this.
lmk
Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.