putrdude opened this issue on Jun 12, 2015 ยท 27 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 13 June 2015 at 8:38 AM
For outdoor scenes, on your sun light (infinite), the correct amount of blur is .5 - no other value. However, if, as an artist, you choose to be incorrect because you think people will be enthusiastic about your artistic misrepresentation of the sun we've had for 4 billion years, have at it.
You can fuss with the Shadow Samples for a speed quality tradeoff. I default to 70 for stills, but in animation, you can get away with less.
Here I dropped to 15 samples, and the render time got better from 13.0 seconds to 11.7 seconds.
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)