Raytraced Shadows question

N-RArts

Hi, 

I've been working on a scene which uses Raytraced Shadows. I'm using Disconsolation (which I've added lighting to) and I'm using Light Dome LE (which I've added raytraced shadows to some of the lights, not all). 

I don't normally use shadows. I either forget about them, or I'm rendering a scene where you don't see the feet and/or the floor is dark, which means shadows aren't necessary.

Can scenes with quite a few lights using Raytraced shadows take longer to load?

 

 

 

Silent Winter

It can take longer to render - I don't think it should take much longer to load in the scene (DS only shows preview lights up to 8 - other lights aren't shown in the preview window, only at render time)