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jure wrote:1min39s... Yes I could bring it under 1min but I will rather play with caustics a bit ...

Jure, you've managed to write the same typo twice in the one sentence, you put the render time down as 1min, that would just be plain silly if correct

That is just insanely fast! People should be looking at Kray with real seriousness now, and the most amazing thing that I find about Kray is it's written by one guy, just compare that with all the other top renderers and their large development teams.

Hats off to you G-man.

(end of lovefest)

Stuart

I increased it up to 600....

Oh yes phile! And get one of those multicores! Mine is not all that fast realy... You get much faster ones now allready...

Here's my effort. Not much work on the settings really. Everything set on low apart from AA, which is adaptive, grid size 3. Also turned up the photon multiplier, gamma and exposure (3.0, 1.4 & 2.0 respectively).

Question: can anyone recommend some settings that will reduce or eliminate that awful graining around the lumi light?

You gotta tweak those surfaces phile

Yes the grain can be reduced by setting luminostiy lights min max value... set it to something like 20-100 or 50-200 untill it's gone.

Hee hee! Not my surfaces...

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it now.

Rumour has it AMD has just heavily cut the prices of its high-end Athlons. Rather good news, that!

phile wrote:

jure wrote:1min39s... Yes I could bring it under 1min but I will rather play with caustics a bit ...

Heh... and there I was thinking my trusty old 2.8GHz P4HT was still a reasonably fast machine. I'm just playing with the scene and I'm looking at render times around ten minutes, with everything set to Low.

Clearly it's time for a hardware upgrade round here!

Phil

actually the low settings are in fact pretty "high", you have to see the presets as a pretty safe-for-every-scene setting. When you get to know kray more, you will use "Custom" more often and there you gain a lot of extra speed per specific scene. It requires some experience, but in the meantime you have good results already with the presets. Jure took my scene and used the latest kray with new goodies, so you can expect this scene to fly on your machine when I post it here later.

My test. AMD64 3000+

Can you turn off that light?

Next render.
Mario: yes, next render I will switch off that light

here is the kray ob2.2 scenefile, should render in ob2 too, but little slower. I think the next ob2.x will be out soon (?).

http://www.xs4all.nl/~ezcc/KrayMRLightGallery.zip

night version

Hey!
Kray rulez!
My version on slow computer.
My version have high AA and good light on window.

Guys can you explai a bit why is this that this scene takes 1 min and looks great but others 5 hours and no so good?!
Users errors?

Johny_quick wrote:Hey!
Kray rulez!
My version on slow computer.
My version have high AA and good light on window.

Yeh!

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