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Originally Posted by PCole

I've got a question..
I'm trying to animate a scene while using the Advanced Lighting feature - Radiosity. But it will only calculate one frame at a time.. how do I calculate the entire sequence while using Radiosity?

I imagine it will take it a long time but i'm just stuck on how to do it.. Thanks

Theres been a couple threads that have already addressed the issue of Radiosity in videos.

• http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=24830
• http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=28332

I would suggest you not use Radiosity in animation because you tend to lose the quality in compression that you get from the extra processing time. Radiosity also calculates for each individual frame, not for the entire sequence, so you tend to get flickering in the animation unless you have the quality turned up significantly (and because it is exponential, turning it up to those levels could leave you at a couple hours, if not more per frame). Instead of using Radiosity, I would experiment with placing different lights to mimic the effects of Radiosity.