ziggie opened this issue on Aug 04, 2009 · 617 posts
pjz99 posted Fri, 07 August 2009 at 2:39 PM
You get splotches with spotlights anyway, and while lowering # of GI bounces does make it appear less blotchy it's also less accurate - and that's really the opposite behavior that you should get, in other GI rendering apps when you increase # of GI bounces, quality goes up.
edit: I realize you're trying to help with a workaround, just observing that the renderer is really a bit borked and needs work.