new update

have been doing some more render tests,
with luxrender and cuastic light.

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my final very nice luxray render took 8620 seconds to render. but it does look nice :)

Upcoming Big Rendering

i have started a big comparison of open source rendering options. hope to be finished by the end of the week.

here are some of the first results results,
Direct lighting, ambit, ray-tracing, ray depth 10-20 max supported!
Luxray 7.0rc2 730s
Blender 2.49b 970.23s
Blender 2.5 render 262.19s
Blender 2.5 508.69s
Yafaray 0.1.1 3.766s

in this case Yafaray was the clear winner!
see renders:
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am doing more ray-tracing tests along with strands, volumetrics (were supported ect)







Ps. the Luxrender render was stooped by me when i deemed it crisp and thus to the same fine quality as the other renders.
I am also testing SmallluxGPU the demonstration version of what GPU accelerated Luxrender could end up as, this runs nice and fast on my macbook pro, with 4 threads 2 for cpu and 2 for gpu.

Edit:here is a hi resolution version of the above image