putrdude opened this issue on Jun 12, 2015 ยท 27 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 13 June 2015 at 8:15 AM
The Firefly renderer is a REYES renderer and its motivation is animation - so the settings for animation that we rarely use for stills come into play for animation.
If I'm disagreeing with others it's not to be disagreeable. I'm just letting you know what I think and have learned either from reading how Pixar does things or doing them myself.
When we do "photo" realism, 3D and motion is revealed by blur (focal blur and motion blur).
Here is a little demo with the front pawn in focus, the middle pawn in spinning flight after being hit, and the back pawn sitting quiet but out of focus.
The quality of the blur is affected by the Pixel Samples. Higher is better, but adversely affects render time. You will have to judge. That image was done with Pixel Samples = 7 and took 25.1 seconds.
This is Pixel Samples = 3, time is 15.1 seconds. I don't think this is acceptable but you have to judge for yourself.
This is Pixel Samples=1, time is 11.1 seconds. I don't think anybody would find this acceptable.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)