RC2 Linux x64 statically linked binary available for testing

[Radiance]

hey,

that's gonna take me about an hour to download (i'm on wireless internet)...

if it's not emitter related, and it's an interior of some kind, i'm sure the path tracer is having problems finding a lightsource or something.
place some emit portals in your scene..

since there's no MLT yet in this scene, light shining trough small apertures is hard to find without portals...

(check the manual for info on portals)

greetz,
radiance

PS: i'm downloading it anyways in case it's not the problem...

[Radiance]

Hey,

the scene file you sent me has various issues

material CG001 -> emitter (emit = 0.150) = has 4000 faces (this is the major problem)
other transparent materials have both 'ray mirror' and 'ray transp' on (they'll be mirrors, read up on in the luxblend manual)
some objects have no material assigned.
etc...

your model is HUGE. (1000000 million triangles for a wall-clock)
you should be able to get the same results with 10x less triangles and normal smoothing

greetz,
radiance

[phr0stbyte]

Yeah - I should just model it again with just pure Blender. This was an experiment on importing MoI models, where you have to REALLY smooth them out in order for them to look smooth enough for rendering, Here is the results of the same experiment from Indigo:
http://www.indigorenderer.com/joomla/forum/files/wall_clock_168.png

[IanC]

Hey,

Thanks for this, it works beautifully now!

I'm getting 140k s/sec on a q6600. Clears up really quickly I really, really love being able to add and delete threads on the fly too.

OpenSuse 10.3 64 bit on Q6600 btw

[PhilBo]

Wow....on my 1.4 ghz Toshiba laptop (Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10 32 bit) I am getting twice the performance on the Suzanne scene in Linux as compared to XP. I will post some results on my dual core machines to see if the same holds true with Gentoo 64 and Ubuntu 64 vs XP. Great work. I'm loving this renderer.

[jromang]

Hi Philbo...and the best is still to come Played a little bit with compiler, and got a 70% faster binary here (linux x64 - suzanne scene - compared to the official x64 RC2 release)

[PhilBo]

Can't wait!

I didn't have as much luck with my desktop as my laptop. The performance with Windows XP and the static LInux 64 build in Ubuntu 64 was the same on an Athlon 64 X2 5200+ with 2 gig of ram.

[joaulo]

It works for me on Debian Testing and AMD X2 4200!!!