low photon storage ratio problem

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Hi,

I am getting following info when generating photon map:
mantra: Aborting photon generation due to an extremely low photon storage ratio. Try using a more accurate photon target.

Obviously I can't change a target, what can I do than?

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czesc Kubo,
there are number of reasons your photons aren't saved. Bad surface definition, light that is placed too far, obstacles, too less photons emitted for a given scene's units. As you know you can visualize photons. Check what is going on with them. Sometime simply replacing light was helping me in the same problem.

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sy.

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Photons behaviors are now controlled via physical properties of a shader. Not photon shader as before. Maybe there is something wrong with your F variable?


PS2 Have you managed your challenge with attributes remapping? I sent you some tips…
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Czesc SY,

Thanks for the info, and for the script. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to test it yet, but I will get back to it very soon once I get to optimizing some stuff…

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There's some discussion of this error and other photon stuff at:

http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=6211 [forums.odforce.net]
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