Hi everybody... I think I'm stupid, because in 7 weeks membership it's the first time I enter the Bryce forum :)
Here's the question: in my last renders, I encountered what for me is a strangeness: I rendered an image with normal AA and it took 6 days, so I shied away from Premium... then, out of pure curiosity, I did a try with Premium at 16 rpp, with SoftShadows and TrueAmbience checked... and the rendertime decreased sensibly (about 20% less)! I retried with 36rpp and got more or less the same result. I re-read the manual, but there's no information about that; all the other image settings were just the same, so... there's someone who could give me a better insight on this issue?
I would also like to ask when you prefer to use Premium Effects and when Normal or SuperFine... and (it's the last, I swear!) if --and in which way-- the softshadows setting in the LightLab affects the SoftShadows option ckecked in Premium Rendering.
Thanks for your attention and for the support I received since I'm a R'osity member.
Stefano