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Title: Good and Evil
Post by: NWsenior07 on August 05, 2007, 08:56:26 PM
Perhaps the line between good and Evil is not so thin after all...

I'd like to get rid of the graniness in the bottom center, I've already cranked the GI up pretty high, should I try the detail settings next?
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: rcallicotte on August 05, 2007, 09:41:30 PM
Good question and I don't have the answer.  I think this is a common occurrence when pushing certain boundaries with cloudiness.
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: nvseal on August 05, 2007, 11:26:59 PM
What are your atmosphere quality settings?
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: NWsenior07 on August 05, 2007, 11:52:47 PM
I have them set at 64 for all three planets. Should I turn the main planet's quality up some?
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: moodflow on August 06, 2007, 01:30:55 AM
Quote from: NWsenior07 on August 05, 2007, 11:52:47 PM
I have them set at 64 for all three planets. Should I turn the main planet's quality up some?

You'll likely need 128 or more, but just for the main planet (not the moons).
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: Tangled-Universe on August 06, 2007, 05:23:38 AM
Yep, try 128 or even more after that...
But don't forget to lower back your GI settings and do some cropped test-renders of the "problem area".

Martin
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: sjefen on August 06, 2007, 09:32:09 AM
Nice clouds.
Looks like evil wins ;D
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: NWsenior07 on August 07, 2007, 11:36:20 PM
I revisited the TGD and found that my atmo's quality was only 16. I turned it up to 64 and did a test render on the problem region like you suggested Tangled-Universe and the problem was solved. I'm doing a 1 level detail render with the atmo at 80 quality for good measure right now, its up to 21 hours and its not even done with half the dot matrix so I'll have a re-render in the next couple of days.
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: Tangled-Universe on August 08, 2007, 05:56:42 AM
What are your GI settings?
Lowering these could save you lots of rendertime.
Looking forward to see the results of your test.

Martin
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: NWsenior07 on August 08, 2007, 08:34:10 AM
My GI is 3/3 though at this point I think I'm going to just the the thing render.
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: NWsenior07 on August 11, 2007, 12:17:15 PM
I re-rendered with the new atmo settings, it took 101 hours but I think its worth it.
Title: Re: Good and Evil
Post by: Tangled-Universe on August 12, 2007, 05:52:20 AM
Yes this is really worth the waiting, what an improvement! There's little to no grain  :)
Very nice picture, good concept and great execution!

Martin