bassam/randall you do know that instancing will only work on duplis? and not on shared mesh objects? I wonder how your scene is setup
Daniel Salazar www.3developer.com 2011/1/30 Bassam Kurdali <bkurd...@freefactory.org>: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list Bf-committers@blender.org http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers