TEST 3 - IGNORE INDIRECT LIGHTING ON PLANTS WITH LOWERED GI

Part 3 of my test. As we saw in the last 2 videos, increasing the GI boost from -1.0 to 1.0 helped a lot, but at the expense of double the rendering time (ack). I'm not a fan of doubling render times unless needed...

For both of those videos, IILOP was left unchecked.

For this test, I've lowered the GI back to -1.0, but have IILOP checked ON now. We'll see what this does to the look of the animation....

What I was surprised to find was I actually had about equal rendering time as with IILOP turned off as I did on. However, the flicker was very evident.

At this point, I've decided never to use GI in an animation until Vue gets the GI speed up a bit. The hit you take is just too rough.

http://www.vuerealism.com/renderchallenge01/tree03.wmv (2.7 MB)

GI Lighting (+0.40, 55%, 50%)
Quality boost = -1.0
Ambience: .30 Sky Dome Gain: .85

User settings
OAA (9,9) = 69%
TAA (4,16) = 85%
Adv Efx Qual: 46%

Wind Disabled
Breeze enabled (40% intensity)
Ignore Indirect Lighting on Plants CHECKED
TGA Sequence

15fps = 150 frames = 6hrs 34mins (5.2 minutes per frame)
2 Computers Rendering

-Ryan Spaulding
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