Can anyone help? What is the best setting on the 3Delight render engine for maximum render quality?(buket size and raytrace depth) I want to get some 10x8 copies printed at a photo lab, and if they look ok then maybe an A3 enlargement.

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Print quality will more be influenced by the pixel dimensions as by the bucket size and raytrace depth. If you are happy with the picture you can see on your screen you already have a good setting. For a print you need to calculate depending on the Dot Per Inch (DPI) the size of your render. An A4 printed with 300 DPI needs a size of 2480 x 3508 and for an A3 you should use 4960 x 7016. If you want 600DPI you need to double those values. Hope this helps Jacques

Thanks Jacques, will experement with a few A4s on photo paper at home before I pay for a 10x6 at the photo lab! Steve:)

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Bucket size is the size of the chunk that DAZ|studio asks the 3delight renderer to produce at each step - making it smaller can help when memory is running tight, but progress may at least seem slower (not sure if the extra packets back-and-forth actually affect the speed). Raytrace depth is how many times a ray of light is allowed to bounce from a reflective surface or pass through a refractive surface to another before the renderer calls it quits and just takes the current value: the higher you make it the longer the render will take, so turn it up only if you are going to be able to see the effect of the extra steps.

Thanks alot for that info, knowing what raytrace depth does is a great helpto me. Steve:)

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