Even at 1000 samples my eyes are looking very pixelated.
The only way around this is too make them very non-glossy and hazy
You can see through it at higher roughness but its murky
Hi, I’ve had the fireflies problem too, you can try to increment the value of “Clamp Indirect” in the Sampling section of the render settings. It sometimes helps to reduce or eliminate the fireflies.
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I will try this if i come across it in the future. Havn’t found many uses for cycles render yet with the aim being game design, heh.
Try theses as well, the fireflies seem to be a almost unavoidable problem with blender.
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heh yeah i was getting issues just throwing glass on this table for fun. Returning to this file though, its looking very dark in Cycles, enhancing the firefly effect I know see you’re talking about:
Changing clamp indirect setting like @marilu597 mentioned seems to change the color of the fireflies or perhaps reduce the size of them. Which does help a little.
Man this per pixel lighting sure seems like a pain to me haha. (i think thats what it is?)
It would take a while to go through that list, but those are all good tips to consider… I will probably test them out next time I try to render a scene in cycles.
I think the glass problem I had was slightly different, but maybe has something to do with lighting samples.
I believed it to be a problem with how close the eye was to the glass surface though.
Other students have noticed dark scenes in general seem to have problems, but apparently its more complicated then that.
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We do cover light portals in a different lecture and you can hide the planes that you use from the render mode.
Its in the game asset section but for more advanced lighting i refer people to that blender guru site at present.
Looking the rabbit i think you may be right in that the glass was a little closer to the eye itself. Maybe insetting the eye further and increasing the gap would have helped.
Its a lot of experimentation as no scene is going to be exactly alike.
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lol yeah I don’t know why I cant get this scene lit, I think I’ll just leave it for now xD
I think this might be why:
Actually @Marc_Carlyon do you have any idea why the Sun doesn’t apply shadows to my building interior? I have the sun lamp set to cast them… It seems to only be casting this one weird block that doesnt change no matter how i tweek the sun…
Inaccurate sun shadow artifact: (blender render)
Sun moved to the right:
The weirdest part is I thought Sun lamp location should not matter? It doesn’t cast shadow onto building interior but there is that wierd block.
Maybe the sun was interfering with my scene lighting in cycles aswell. i ultimately gave up on this project for cycles lighting lol…
If i am completely honest the base lighting in blender is not very good at all.
I am not sure whats going on with the sun as direction shouldnt matter but it clearly does.
One of the solution to this is as mentioned before using light portals (Basically using a plane as a lighting emission object).
Another solution students have found if light portals has not worked for them is an add on called “filmic” i think and gives better lighting in blender.
I have not used this myself so hence why i havent recommended it before now and i couldnt give support on it.
I feel however you would be confident enough to work out how it works and improve the scene possibly.
Hope this helps