A hollowed out cube, a tree, a volumetric spotlight, and some fiddling with the smoke/dust production. Not worth putting in the gallery, perhaps, but I thought it looked pretty cool anyway. Rendered with user settings, 25 subrays per pixel and the original render still looked grainy. Is there any way around this other than post-work? Rich

Really interesting...I'm busy checking out light too. What would this have looked like without the volumetric light? Is that the 'foggy' dust effect? riv

Nice effect :) I always thought that Vue renders, even in high quality, look somewhat grainy. If you find out how to circumvent this, please let us know!

Make sure that the Threshold setting is at Best quality under the User settings. Ensure that any blur or softness (under the light tab) are kept under 3%. Lastly with with volumetrics the quality setting should be set to at least 2 for best results. Hope that helps. Cheers

 

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It's very cool-looking! Makes me wish I had a chance to be playing. :)

riversedge: This is the image with volumetric light turned off (pretty basic). The first image I started out with the 'Undulating furrows' function preset for the smoke/dust density production and modified it from there. Cheers: Thanks for the tips. I'll have to do some playing...err...work on that this weekend. Would rendering at a higher ppi work as well? Gabi: Most of the time I render at 1600x1200 and resize the image down. That seems to reduce alot of the graininess. The first image was rendered at this size and reduced in Photoshop to 640x480. Rich

OK, now I think I understand - and look forward to giving it a try. Thanks much.