A minor update as my patience is not well trained
The two attached images are:
1. A downsized and sharpened testrender with a single sun yesterday
2. A screenshot of a running render with the Lite-versions of moodflow's unvaluable softshadow-clip
You might see the difference of the shadows on the ground. And that the tree look less plastified is a bit obvious.
This is still just some play-around to get some decent plants - some overcast will be needed to satisfy me. But ...
The lighting is an improvement. An increase, a benefit!
Rendertimes of the first image (1024x768px - Testrender [please do not hit me
]) were 8.5 hours
The running render (800x600px) did not reach the 5.5 hours yet and I'll doubt that it will take longer than 8 hours in total. Which would be a time factor of about 1.7 against a quality benifit multiplyer of at least 4
Give it a try!
Volker