I've created a ring light with a torus mesh and a area lamp as back light. I'm quite happy with the reflection and with the shadows since it's my 1st try but the main issue is that the image is so noisy... any suggestion? Thank you!
You won't want to use progressive refine as a rule but it will allow you to see the whole scene render at once. You can then stop the render before max samples are run. It will allow you to see the difference the number of samples makes.
More samples.
Under render check the progressive refine box and set the Sampling/sample number to 2000. Under Light paths uncheck all caustics.
If you are going to use Cycles start thinking about a GPU.
especially important to reflective surfaces is the
need of higher sampling rate in the render process...
this can be intensive use on a lesser computer...
in which case there are other tricks...
try the higher sample rates first...
if you need more help try posting in the cookie forums...
http://community.cgcookie.com/ hope this helps.
got it! Thanks!
Also make sure Blender is set to gpu and not cpu render.
Thak you! Much better now. My GPU is a NVIDIA Quadro K2100M so I think that the problem is the "driver" not the "car" :)
Thank you very much! It's getting better. Also an other "problem" was the world color. When it was set all black the noise was greater.
You won't want to use progressive refine as a rule but it will allow you to see the whole scene render at once. You can then stop the render before max samples are run. It will allow you to see the difference the number of samples makes.
More samples.
Under render check the progressive refine box and set the Sampling/sample number to 2000. Under Light paths uncheck all caustics.
If you are going to use Cycles start thinking about a GPU.
especially important to reflective surfaces is the
need of higher sampling rate in the render process...
this can be intensive use on a lesser computer...
in which case there are other tricks...
try the higher sample rates first...
if you need more help try posting in the cookie forums...
http://community.cgcookie.com/
hope this helps.