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From: Rich Comber <eckland@ais.net>
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Subject: LW Rendering Tips?
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Hi!
I'm working on a scene where I have a glass of cola with ice sitting a
tabletop. I have one spotlight lighting the scene. I'm trying to get a
realistic glass/cola effect and have proper shadows. Using shadow maps
shades the ice cudes too much and using raytrace shadows takes wayyyy tooo long.
I rendered one frame and it took almost 27 hours on a 586-120/32MB on Win
95, rev C system. I actually wanted to animate the fissing/bubbles in the
cola to get a realistic effect.
Any ideas to shave the rendering time would be appreciated. Prehaps some
kind of post process where I use my one rendered frame as a background and
just re-render my glass, ice and cola with the fissing bubbles without any