putrdude opened this issue on Dec 03, 2018 ยท 36 posts
bagginsbill posted Sat, 15 December 2018 at 11:31 AM
I tried other positions for the strip lights and all created artifacts of one sort or another that do not match the lighting of a sky dome.
So - back to sky dome. I turned on branch path tracing with 3 diffuse samples, which gives more emphasis to solving the diffuse lighting. One thing to note is that when you enable BPT, glossy reflections are much brighter. I don't know which is correct, reflections with BPT or without, but my intution tells me the BPT version is realistic and there's some sort of bug when not using BPT.
Note I can only do CPU renders. GPU may do something completely different.
Anyway, I ran 500 pixel samples, and went off to do other stuff. Upon my return, the render status showed 2216 samples (which corresponds to about 46 in render settings pixel samples).
This looks good to me.
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