haroda

Thank you all for your reply!!! I shall try all of your suggestions.
Got side tracked on another project.

thanks again!!!

Thanx for getting back to me so quickly.
Darn!!! no magical button yet…

It's a simple particle system so no spare attributes. Yes, I wrote to disk.
I rendered a version with environment mapping and no env. map with default ray tracing. No shadow maps and everything else is default settings.
Are you reccommending to post a hip file of my scene?

In the past in renderman, I used renderman shading rate to help speed the rendering time. Does mantra has something similar to that? I played with pixel samples in mantra but it didn't seem to make a difference, yet…

thanx Rob!

Looking for suggestions on quick rendering of mantra in houdini 11 for testing purposes. What parameters do you suggest in reducing in mantra when using liquid shader with particles? My machine seems to max out. It takes from 5 to 10 minutes for a 320x243 size. What am I doing wrong???

thanx a bunch!!!