You can see in the attached photo that the lighting on the edges are wrong. There shouldn’t be lighting there, so how can I fix it?
Also I had to change the renderer to eevee instead of cycles because it took way too long to render over 4000 samples. Is that because I have a poor GPU?
It is an Eevee issue light bleed. Ticking contact shadows usually fixes it.
4000 samples is a lot! Without some good reason.
The default render setting on a new file is 128. With denoising, it’s usually good, at least a baseline to consider if you want more.
Yes in the end we are all limited by the GPU power. However, Cycles is a proper renderer and will take time. Eevee makes lots of compromises with most stuff turned off merely for speed like a game engine live updating.
If you want to give cycles another go, try clicking the hamburger menu next to render under render_properties>sampling, then setting it to preview.
@NP5
Newer versions of Blender have it set to 4096 samples by default, but it only samples sections over a specified noise threshold.
That is odd I suspect then my version uses the previous settings as I click that option whenever I upgrade for ease.
