Brazil Volumetric Environment

Rendering Brazil
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I’m rendering a scene using a Brazil Volumetric Environment. I have only one light (spotlight) plus I’ve turned on skylight and indirect illumination. Scene is interior of a tunnel with a hole in the wall to let the light in. The render is taking ages to start. After nearly 30 mins it doesn’t have a single pixel rendered yet, at 800x600. I did render at a much smaller size a while ago and it did get started after about 4 or 5 minutes, but I’m wondering if some setting is creating issues or is this type of environment always slow to start.

Using i7 (quad core), 24GB RAM, Quadro3000M.

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It will certainly add time to the render, but it should be nothing like that. Could you either post the model here, or send it to me at andy@mcneel.com - and I will figure out what’s causing the slowdown.