I have noticed this too, turning on instancing, in scenes with lots of instances, sometime leads to longer render times. In the past it has been faster, too, so I don't know what's going on, or why it should have these results.
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 10:00 -0800, Randall Rickert wrote: > When I read the post about instancing being off by default, I was in the > middle of a big project with raytracing and lots of instancing. I can > turn on instancing to save some rendering time, right? > > Wrong! Turning on instancing gave me longer render times, and it also > made a small but visible difference in final gather. This is just the > first file I tried rendering with instancing turned on, and I have not > tried with other projects yet. Definitely not a large enough sampling to > draw broad conclusions, but maybe turning it on by default is not such a > simple answer after all. > > -Randall > > > On 21 January 2011 10:39, Daniel Salazar - 3Developer.com > > <zan...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > > There's an option in the Performance panel in Render Properties called > > > Instances, it allows the raytracer to memory instance all duplis, IMO > > > this option should be on by default (if optional at all) since, from > > > talking to Jaguarandy some time ago, it should not bring any problems > > > or speed increase in any case, to the contrary, the speed and memory > > > usage when using duplis gets much better. Also sadly many people > > > ignore this setting so they don't benefit from it. > > > > > > cheers > > > > > > Daniel Salazar > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Bf-committers mailing list > > > Bf-committers@blender.org > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > Bf-committers@blender.org > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers -- PGP public key http://freefac.org/misc/public.key _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers