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I'm guessing it has something to do with my area lights settings. There are 18 windows in my scene and I put an area light in front of each of them....so I've got 18 area lights. In the area light settings I've set the High samples to 32, high sample limit to 2 and low samples to 8.
Would increasing these settings reduce the noise? I'm a bit concerned that it will increase my render time by a lot.
Maybe there are other settings that I can change to reduce noise as well. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated
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Started a new project but got some problems with the lighting.
This time it's a small bathroom (yes another bathroom
) with just one small window and a half opened door. I'm actualy trying to replicate a photo I found online. I'm not going for an exact replica but I would like to get the lighting as close as possible. Right now I'm rendering the scene with one hdr image, 2 portal lights and a directional light for the sunlight. For Global Illumination I use the new GI mode. This however does not yield satisfactionary results. Here is the image that I use as reference:
And here is my image:
As you can see the reference image is a nice and brightly lit bathroom with no dark and contrasting corners. My render is almost the complete opposite. With global illumination I had hoped the room would be nicely lit with al the light bouncing around en lighting up every corner of the little room. I have also done a test with Final gather without tweaking the settings much and the result is far better. I was under the impression that my test render with the new GI should look a lot like the one with Final gather. Am I doing something wrong or is this to be expected?
The render with final gather:
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11-05-2016
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I also added a small window in de shower area to brighten up this part of the image.
Before the above render I also renderd an indirect diffuse pass. The result is an almost black image. I can only see some indirect light around the windowframe. Shouldn't there be a lot more light? Is there something I am missing?
The indirect diffuse pass:
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I guess it's a matter of practice and sticking with it till you're happy. Took my a lot of time to get to something like this. Also a lot of googling for tuts and tips. And the tutorials on this site have helped me alot as well
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Could you tell a bit more about the light setup ?
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16-11-2016
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The lighting in these images is done really simple. I only use an HDR image as environment lighting. No use of portal lights. They give me strange results but I am thinking of starting to use them again as I a want to shorten my render times. Some renders take 20 hours to render wich is insane.
In some occassions I also use a couple of area lights to light up dark spots in the render.
This weekend I hope I have some time to use my render setup for the scene you have provided at the nvidia forum. Then I can share that scene with you so you can see my exact settings.
This is my last render. I really like this one. The composition is not mine...I coppied it from an image I found online. Hope you guys and girls like it. Feedback is always welcome.
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Nice new render.
20 hrs is a lot. But also depends on the resolution. What resolution did you render ?
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21-11-2016
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Resolution is 5000 x 3562.
20hrs is indeed long and I think both resolution and the indirect lighting contribute to the very long render times. Especialy the shower area with the glass door takes up a lot of render time I believe.
I'am hoping to reduce some of the render times with the use of portal lights
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