Ancient Technology: The Light Trap

[Oshyan]

BTW, increasing the displacement tolerance is having a tremendous effect on render times....

What did you increase it to?

- Oshyan

[Simius Strabus]

At first I tried 2, but I had to go to 3 to get rid of the clipping. Anyways, I solved the problem by using 4 separate object to act as the obelisk reflectors.

[Oshyan]

Generally we don't recommend values above 2, but if it's required in this case to fully fix the issue, obviously that's what you'd need to use. Generally it's the exception rather than the rule to need values that high. But indeed it will increase render time, especially at higher values above 2.

- Oshyan

[cyphyr]

This is a situation where a localised tolerance value could be useful, possibly also a localised compute terrain.
(if such things exist)
Richard

[Oshyan]

Interesting idea, but I really don't know if that's possible...

- Oshyan

[Dune]

I used a localized compute terrain when making walls, by feeding the walls' area  + compute terrain (smooth and low patch size) as child through a blended surface shader into the normally computed terrain.

[Simius Strabus]

Thanks for the info Dune, I'll give it a go.

[Jo Kariboo]

I like the mood of the first one!!!