Quote - Back to the fun stuff.. anybody know how I can get rid of this noise? It will clear up pretty well in the lit areas, but the shadow areas stay very noisy.
I'm using 3 large point lights in the corners and 1 small weak point light in the candle.
I've tried using gaussian pixel filter, I've tried surface integrators bidirectional, distributed path and path, but it stays noisy..
What am I missing?

I remember I read somewhere to mutch light energy leads to noise (but not really sure). Maybe you can try to lower the gain of all of your lights?

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