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"Andy, OK.... so let's see something a little more tangible about BR3? Jonah's comment about Imaginations handling/wording of the announcement was spot on. Suggesting competing software in the absence of something about Brazil-3 was a…"

"Forgot to mention, the model has a total of 14 point lights...hence the relatively long render time."

"Somewhat surprisingly, reducing the photon count even down to 10k didn't really make much of  a difference. I ended up getting render time down to 54 mins by reducing creation shade rate in the Render Cache to -4/-4, and QMC sample rate…"

"Jonah,   OK, but if you had to make a decision in which one to buy with your hard earned cash, which one would it be??   Alan"

"Maxwell : $844 VRay : $799   Take your pick :-)...."

"let us know :)"

"Aha..... I'll try adjusting and see what it does...."

"total count in photon map=100.000,could be this the render time problem?"

"Hi Agesandros,   Lights were Rhino point-lights with Brazil 2-ray shadows, set to disk area and Inverse Square decay on. The render time was quite long >3hrs, though I'm sure my settings aren't optimum, and McNeel folks could…"

"simply great!!! can you share your brazil-setting?type of lights? render time? cpu type?"

"Frank,   It's possible to use a composite environement, using a backplate image and fog. However, this simply results in a 'washed out' looking background image. I think the atmosphere you're looking to create has to be…"

"i love it...but i think there's  an error on the water mapping!  anyway,great image,good render and awesome system light! 9\10!!!:) "

"Thanks Peter. This was a difficult one, the addition of the area lights on the steps dramatically increased render time. I ended up rendering 2 images, one with the area lights (partial render of scene) and one without. Finally, bring both…"