Quote - BTW BB, what are your render settings in D3Ds Render Firefly dialog? I tend not to use it, but I would if it would give me better results for emitters ;). Laurie

I change them all the time - I don't use one particular setting. I don't use presets. Every time I render I think about how I want to handle it and what's going on in the scene - anywhere from a quick test render to a final render, I tweak.

Draft render of EnvSphere and my material test pawn?

50 samples, IDL IC=35, MSR=1, PS=3, Bounces=1

Super crazy overnight final might be:

5000 samples, IDL IC=90, MSR=.2, PS=12, Bounces=8

Usually I'm somewhere in between.

Working with SR3 beta, I sometimes turn off IC. You don't have that switch.

Note - poking around in the Python API, I found evidence of path tracing, KD Tree optimizations, and other unfinished goodies.

 

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