Interesting Tip to Speed Up Renders a lot!

[gordonrobb]

A sure. I would do that too..

[MrFurious]

neat tip Gristle thanks

[gristle]

No problem, thanks for your tip as well.

[MrFurious]

Maybe it's me, but I would always use the scene editor to remove things from rendering. Why would you use 'dissolve' or 'invisible to camera'? anyway.

Dissolve is handy when you have multiple copies of a single lumi panel and want to reduce the brightness of one of them.

Given my tests, you'll probably get better render speeds but not using dissolve, but rather creating separate polys for varying luminance levels.

[gristle]

Yeah you're probably right. I normally only do this as a last minute tweak before rendering.