adolphin2000 opened this issue on Sep 05, 2004 ยท 36 posts
ShawnDriscoll posted Mon, 06 September 2004 at 11:40 PM
I rendered the atrium just now with 5000 photons (I think this is Carrara's default amount). I had ashes everywhere when using the Fast Quality Lighting setting. Using the director's camera, I noticed that the atrium model is pretty small. The diameter of the lens on my rendering camera is as wide as one of side hallways. I resized the atrium about 4-5 times larger and rendered again (with 5000 photons using Fast Quality Lighting). No ashes this time (or just very small ashes, smaller than a penny). Now I'm going to use 30000 photons to lighten up the darkened "cave" areas in the atrium (I probably only need 20000, though) and use Best Quality Lighting for my final render.