Pathtracer and Default Renderer - Interiors

[Sampdoria]

Hello guys

 

I have been working on the 2 Renderers for a simple Interior Scene.

 

What Id like to know is

 

- How to optimize the Quality vs Time Ratio in both Renderers?

- How to tweak the Original Renderer for dark areas etc. Do I need to tag areas like we used to in Ar3?

 

For example, I believe if I Render an Interior Scene with Sunlight + Lights On, it may take longer than Sunlight only.

 

I really like the Pathtracer but how to resolve the image faster?

 

regards

 

Birdman

 

 

[Marc Chaumier]

Roy, one question about difference between "glossy" and "balanced" settings: in "balanced, the environment is reflected, lights, colors, shapes, etc. with precision; I believe. But in "glossy", what is exactly reflected?

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Primary light sources including the sky.  Often enough to capture most of the lighting on these surfaces without a lot of calculation.  Adding back the other light does change things, often subtley, but at significant expense.

[Sampdoria]

Thanks Roy and Peter, this thread and replies were very informative, I am making some headway in Interior Renders and there are some nice results, I will post them soon.

 

regards

 

Birdman

[Sampdoria]

Hi

 

Attached is something I was doing since yesterday, it's evidently incomplete but the results are encouraging.

 

regards

[Sampdoria]

Heres something else with encouraging results, Ive always wanted AR to render frosted glass in a proper way, this is exceeding expectations!

[Marc Chaumier]

Thanks!

[Sampdoria]

Heres an update Rendering with Daylight+Interior in Pathtracer with Frosted Glass. Really nice results even though it needs to be resolved more.

 

 

[Sampdoria]

Heres an update Rendering with Daylight+Interior in Pathtracer with Frosted Glass. Really nice results even though it needs to be resolved more.

[Peter Milner]

Looking good.

Are you using Blurry Transparency to create the frosted glass or Sandpaper texture?

[Sampdoria]

I used Sandpaper Texture. Pros and Cons please :)

[Marc Chaumier]

what is your harware to compute 2000 passes in 6 hrs?... and the size of the file?

[Sampdoria]

Hi Marc

 

Its a Dell Xeon at the office X5650 2.67 Ghz, 12 Gb RAM. There are 6 CPUs I guess. At peak it seems to use only 6Gb RAM.