Cycles Question?

It’s slow but it’s getting the job done. I’ve reduced the size of the file to 10% and still have a day or so to go. I misspoke about the number of polys…the hidden in layers, once revealed ended up adding to over 100 million polys!!!

Hidden layers don’t get rendered though. I had here locally a model that added up to 106M tris in Rhino. Since much was instanced it didn’t end up being that bad on the Cycles side though. Rendering at 4500x3200 into Render Window is ultimately slow though. We’re working on getting that part optimised as much as possible in v7. This slowness is why I use the dashed versions of the capture versions. I generally set the vp sample count to 1, then use -ViewCaptureToFile with the resolution I want and the number of passes (samples) I want, like 1500. But yah, lots of room for improvement definitely, which we’re working hard on here in Finland.

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I got it rendering now - looks great!..thanks very much for your help.

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