Is it just me or is my renderer broken? I've also wanted to improve on the quality of the render so played around with different settings. But after it goes past certain setting, let's say above the half way mark in auto, I couldn't tell any difference or any changes. In terms of manual setting, I went up as high as 6 in RT, .10 in SR, 6 in PS, and 3072 in texture size. This is with cast shadows and raytrcing on with texture filtering off (I can't run texture filtering with texture size past 2056). Come to think of it, the render time took much longer so renderer must be doing something that I just couldn't notice.

On the other hand, I saw drastic improvement in sharpness and overall quality if I positioned the light in certain angles. Obviously, this probably is because of the placement of the shadows but I don't really know much about light properties other than being able to tell what looks good to my eyes.

That's just my own experience but, who knows, it could just be my eyes playing tricks on me :)