Anthony Appleyard posted at 10:39AM Wed, 22 March 2017 - #4299963

.. Try render settings with 3 or 4 raytrace bounces and set irradiance caching =>70....

Thanks; but I can find those rendering setting options in Firefly but not in Superfly. The "sandy-textured shadows" nuisance happens in Superfly but not in Firefly.

Oh, I missed that; OK, in Superfly increase the pixel samples; if Mobster's suggested 8 isn't enough to clean it up, try 16. In the right-hand column, increase diffuse bounces to 3, which will help scatter light evenly.

As to why not use progressive refinement, Superfly renders somewhat faster without it. You'll see buckets rendering, with progress indicated by the blue borders on the buckets. And progressive refinement is a waste of render time if you sent the render off to a remote via Queue Manager, since you won't see a real time display of the render in progress. Generally, I do use progressive refinement; it quickly gives you an overall impression of whether the lighting, etc is good.

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