We all know the problem: the beer and the breadsticks are on the table, but where is the remote control?
DJ and his new wife Lara Croft-Johnson want to take a break, but can't find the bloody thing. The search begins...
I already used this interior (Sponza palace, Dubrovnik) for one of my VR challenge entries, and it cried for the path tracer. The whole scene is illuminated by only a large white self illuminating plane above the building (which has an open roof), and the environment light of course. There is also a lightsource in the fire place, but it's only for a bit of orange glow.
I found that direct sunlight often produces harsh shadows on objects that have a subsurface scattering material, even when the objects are high poly, so I used the plane representing some sort of an overcast sky.
I used the following settings:
MPD 0.1 (only objects in the scene)
AA 9
Max paths per sample 100
Robust adaptive sampler - First sampling level 1/256, Pixel noise threshold 0.008
Max ray depth in PT 12
Still some grain, but it's OK to me. Originally rendered in 4000 by 2000 px, and it took 14 hours and 18 minutes to render.
