quietrob posted at 11:28AM Mon, 02 March 2020 - #4382318

The 970 is pretty comparable with my 580 (Which is no where in the class with your 1070. That thing is a monster) so I can get an idea of your speed. Isn't 200 pixels a lot of samples or am I just a little slow in knowledge when it comes to Superfly? You will not be trolling me if you say yes. I think it might be worth it. Your Urban Future set turned out most excellent.

Having Direct Samples not clamped makes renders veeeeeeeeeery noisy when there's lots of shadows involved but it allows the full range of light bounces to fill indoor scenes when I'm using Dome/HDRI lighting and many small mesh lights for indoor lighting. Even at 200 it can still be annoyingly riddled with large spots of noise but it's the only way to get the full amount of light/fill/bounce light from secondary sources. Otherwise the image is dim and most of the reflected and bounces light will simply not be there. With Direct Samples clamped I can get away with 50 samples or less and have a noise free image but I'm also losing most of my fill and bounce light, which looks completely wrong.

Sadly, Urban Future wasn't done with SF it was done with Studio using iray. I can't get my SF renders to look like I can in Studio which sucks because I'm a Poser guy at heart.