Hey everyone,<div>I noticed some bizarre behaviour with Cycles, and I'm wondering if anyone can explain what happened.</div><div><br></div><div>I started with this mostly empty scene: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/I0s7F.png">http://i.imgur.com/I0s7F.png</a> which rendered in 1min 30secs</div>
<div>But then I added one high poly couch: <a href="http://imgur.com/Fecm2">http://imgur.com/Fecm2</a> which increased the render to 38mins.</div><div><br></div><div>Now the strange part is that it rendered slow even in areas of the image without the couch (like the top left hand corner). The tiles that were completely away from the couch were now extremely slow to render, even though that area of the image was completely unaffected by the couch.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I understand that light needs to bounce around the room, but doesn't Cycles have a bounce cutoff point or something?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm using a very recent build of r52731.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Thanks everyone!</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br>Andrew Price<br><a href="http://www.blenderguru.com" target="_blank">http://www.blenderguru.com</a><br><div style="display:inline"></div><br>
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