Hi Guys,

I'm going to start this post with a positive. Most of my posts today have had quite negative content.

Yaaay! I've found a test model that I used during Beta-Testing which fits into the category - 'Renders faster than expected!'

My corridor model was a test-bed for glow lighting tests. It is 27mb in size and features a combination of traditional lights and 'Glow' lights. It looks like this...



Here's the positive part of the post... I opened the model, opened the control panel and Render window of V.2.0.7 and before I realised what had happened the preview was there staring at me.

This surprised me a little, so I tried a refresh and seconds later the preview was back. I have gotten used to slow regeneration of scenes.

I stood back in amazement!

So I thought it must be time to try another Panorama. Warily, I set an 800x800 panorama to go and pressed 'Render'. Much to my surprise, less than 30 minutes later I was looking at a completed Panorama!

Then the other side of the 'coin' turned up. I panned around and thought..."It's a bit dark in here..." and suddenly I noticed gaping black holes in the structure of parts of the corridor where there shouldn't be any.

This is a problem that was identified again during the Beta-test period and I thought it had been corrected. I didn't see any problems when I checked out each scene in my model there were about 8 of them, the previews looked good, not a black hole to be seen. They first started to be obvious during the creation of the panorama.

So, once again, I have a useless panorama, but at least it didn't take nearly 10 hours like the last one I tried.

I have no idea why a 27mb file generates previews in seconds and a panorama in 30 minutes, when a 13mb file takes several minutes to generate a preview and nearly 10 hours to create a panorama! What am I missing?

Ok Team, this is another one for you.

Link for the Panorama

It should look more like this (I changed the lights after this test model was used)

Oh dear.

I just downloaded your model and that doesn't look pretty with all those black shapes!

At the same time I just finished a panorama of a simple room (to test v2 features).
It is 5.5mb in size and I set highest quality settings I could. It renders images ok in 2m5s. But the panorama came out the same as yours with strange black shapes on the walls and floor and took 1hr 7mins.

This is all with 2.0.6 so now going to try the latest version. Cheers Pedro otherwise I'd have missed it.

Hi Pahearn,

I usually do miss the updates as I jump straight to the Forum from a bookmark. I normally find out when Pedro does an update test and posts about it. Most software publishers shout it from the rooftops when they release a new version or patch. The Render(in) crew are the quietest bunch I've ever come across.

Any chance I could see your room panorama? Just so I can compare notes.

Ok, using my same simple 5.5mb test room as I used before that had all the strange black shapes in the panorama I have installed ver 2.0.7 ( I nearly didn't uninstall ver 2.0.6 which you have to do as 2.0.7 doesn't overwrite it!).

Panorama Rendering Times:
Normal radiosity, 800x600 flash viewer, 800x800 rendering size = 5mins and no strange black markings!?

High radiosity, 800x600 flash viewer, 2048x2048 rendering size = 23mins 6sec and again no black holes/shapes anywhere!

Looking good again... but consistency seems to be an issue with V2.

I have attached the panorama's:
v2.0.6 high res settings with odd markings
v2.0.7 low res settings - all ok
v2.0.7 high res settings - all ok

Hmm, didn't take all my files... trying again

Here's the ver 2.0.6 one with odd black patterns.

Ha, even the forum doesn't like attachments

Try these links to download from:
www.mediafire.com/?4bn1x0or2ioq91d
www.mediafire.com/?scdw0ajozqf4s22
www.mediafire.com/?wy8jx9tqrrmn95k