Visit here…
http://hdri.cgtechniques.com/~sponza/show.php?id=411
I am downloading the “ray tracer” now. I hope it isn’t infected with viruses.
He claims to render that picture in less than a second. He’s probably correct, being that there is no, or little, ambient light bounced or depth from the light source.
Oh, the sponza project is fun, for anyone bored and don’t feel like creating a huge project. Here’s the one I did in Blender…
http://hdri.cgtechniques.com/~sponza/show.php?id=406
Can you post the blend? I can’t seem to get any of the downloads working…
The Ray Tracer is at http://www.bik5.com/rtNexGen.rar
I have a Blender version of the Sponza Project here…
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze3nvj6/sponza_BLENDER.zip
It is bare bones and you may want to ad smooth to some of the meshes.
You’ll need the official textures (UVmaps) and apply them. They can be downloaded here (listed under Maps)…
http://hdri.cgtechniques.com/~sponza/files/
This is pretty impressive regardless of the fact that the lighting isn’t all that tricky. Thats still a lot of polys to render in 1 second. Of course, I didn’t see any system specs in that first link so he could be running a monster of a machine…