> Quote - Wow thanks, Keith. So there ya go - shadows are damn cheap on a nice computer. > > I forgot to tell you I disabled shadow casting on the chandelier. Since the real fixture has so many lights, real life would produce hardly any shadow from the fixture. > > I envy you. 3 point lights with RT shadows in 16 seconds. Wow. > > So I'm sure we're crossposting, but how about with nice blur?

Yeah, I should have picked up the chandelier shadow myself.

Okay, it's shadow is off.  Camera back to roughly same position.  Shadow blur at 6, bias 0.2.

Time: 2:35

Without light fallout, obvious problem: the 3 lights are spaced far enough relative to the bars that, with the shadow more realistically blurring, they're canceling each other out  since it's no longer effectively a point source.  I don't find it nearly as dramatic, storywise, even though it's more realistic.

That's one of the things I meant earlier about cheating with the lights.  In graphic storytelling, the image has to advance the story as well as the words, and sometimes realism has to be sacrificed to that end.

I'll try one more with the blur dropped to 2.