optimization in update?

[gradient]

Can someone tell me if there has been any render time optimization with this update?...could not see that in the docs.
If there hasn't, it's not worth the bother to download....for me anyway.

[Cyber-Angel]

Hi Gradient,

I downloaded the up date last night and did a test render at 1200 x 1000 and that rendered in 9 minutes where an image of the same resolution depending on the complexity use to take 19 or more minutes, on my system.

it seems a lot more stable but I haven't really had a chance to push it properly yet? All you can do is give it a try and run you own tests.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel

[gradient]

Thanks for the info Cyber....I shall give it a try then....

[Dark Fire]

I downloaded the up date last night and did a test render at 1200 x 1000 and that rendered in 9 minutes where an image of the same resolution depending on the complexity use to take 19 or more minutes, on my system.

Had you disabled everything!? 9 minutes is extremely fast! Even 19 minutes is fast! I didn't manage to get a render at 800x600 to take less than 30 minutes in 1.8.64.0.

[twistednoodle]

I'm still waiting for my update!    Can't wait to see the changes...

[Will]

I have found that is is faster as well

Regards,

Will

[Cyber-Angel]

He He,

I should have added that my system has an AMD Athlon Processor, also the test image I did was with all the rendering settings at there default settings.

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel   

[Dark Fire]

I should have added that my system has an AMD Athlon Processor, also the test image I did was with all the rendering settings at there default settings.

I have the same processor, the same settings, but much longer render times. Maybe I've melted half of my processor by making it render animations with Terragen 0.9 all of the time...

[Oshyan]

There have been some changes to the renderer which may affect render time but significant optimizations have not yet been implemented.

- Oshyan