POV-Ray for MacOS - Rendering speed
NOTE: I wrote this page when I had my old 4400 and MacOS 7.5.3.
Recently I tried to do the same on my new G3 and MacOS 8.1 and found no speedup.
I leave this page for those with older Macs or older MacOS versions. If you want to share experiences just mail me.
I found that extensions has a dramatic influence on POV-Ray's rendering speed.
I have a PowerMacintsh 4400/200, 256Kb level II cache, 80Mb RAM.
I rendered the image "BASICVUE.POV" with these rendering options:
640 * 480, mosaic preview off, quality 9, radiosity off, antialiasing type 1 on (default values), no info (quiet), optimizations off, preview window hidden.
The extensions loaded were:
Control Panels:
Appearance
Apple Menu Options
Date & Time
DoubleScroll 2.1.2
General Controls
Keyboard
Mac OS Easy Open
Memory
Modem
Monitor & Sound
Mouse
Numbers
PPP
QuickTime Settings
Startup Disk
TCP/IP
Text
Extensions:
Apple CD-ROM
ATI Graphic Accelerator
Color Picker
Display Library
DrawSprocketLib
Foreign file Access
LibMotoSh
Open Tpt AppleTalk Library
Open Tpt Internet Library
Open Transport Library
OpenTpt Modem
OpenTpt Remote Access
OpenTpt Serial Arbitrator
OpenTptAppleTalkLib
OpenTptinternetLib
OpenTransportLib
OpenTransportLib.68K
PowerPC Monitor Extension
QuickDraw 3D
QuickDraw 3D RAVE
QuickDraw 3D Viewer
QuickTime
QuickTime Musical Instruments
QuickTime PowerPlug
Serial (Built-in)
Shared Library Manager
Shared Library Manager PPC
AppleVision
The image rendered in 128 seconds.
The same image rendered whit extension disabled (shift key held down during startup) in 81 seconds.
I don't suggest anyway to use POV-Ray with extension disabled because some extension are helpful during POV-Ray use:
ATI Graphic Accelerator and LibMotoSh are useful, and the second can speed up some scenes.
QuickTime software is useful to compress images after rendering.
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