1234 State Parkway

[glorybound]

I did add a slight sharpen filter, but it was slight. I agree about the outside image; it almost looks like the glass is dirty.

[Morbid Angel]

very nice! outside should be might brighter though for exposure.

[glorybound]

Thanks! I'll work on the exterior exposure. Here, is another view. I am not sure the no artificial lights works as well here. Also, my stair carpet is wonky... I'll have to revisit that, too.

[glorybound]

I couldn't get this scene to render in less than 9hrs. I have tried everything, all the tricks of the trade, but nothing helped. Unless I cranked settings up, the noise was extreme, especially in the shadow areas. I even tried the universal, but that took 11 hours. Now, having said that, I converted it to a Corona scene and in an hour I got pretty decent results. What am I doing wrong?

Here, are the 1hr Corona renders and below that is the MAX file, without textures.



https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/...8-a99af6db7fec

[joconnell]

No dof in the corona renders?

The file is less useful without the textures since they'll have such a big effect on what the renderer has to sample too!

[glorybound]

I did turn off DOF for the last ones I did in V-Ray. I am uploading the textures now and will post once they are ready.

No dof in the corona renders?

The file is less useful without the textures since they'll have such a big effect on what the renderer has to sample too!

[Oleg_Budeanu]

I could take a look but it is in max 2016 or 2015 , as in my 2014 it is not opening.

[glorybound]

Here, are the texture. Yes, it is 2015

https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/...0-51f69716f406

[joconnell]

Any chance you'd back save to 2014?

[glorybound]

here you go. Much appreciated.
https://files.acrobat.com/a/preview/...7-30cab43fa8dd

Any chance you'd back save to 2014?

[glorybound]

Now, this model isn't how I rendered it in V-Ray. I was starting the lighting over prior to wanting to see how Corona handled the scene. So, the scene is how I left it, mid-way through starting the lighting over.

[Morbid Angel]

Hey Bobby. I had a quick look at the scene and got a clean result with some tweaking:

http://we.tl/xcZpZUg9Sw

I'm not sure what render time you will get but on my system this frame at 4k would take 3-4 hours. Now on xeon x5650 it would probably be doble. Check it out maybe it will be helpful. I think the few issues I saw were:

1 - your bg card plane was emitting gi - this is generally not a good idea it will create a ton of noise. If you really want to use it you should blur the bg image a lot and use that for gi emission. I turned it off it didn't do much.
2 - using dome light in interior is not the best idea. Tracing dome light through windows is a complex task for the renderer especially when it had hdr in it.
3 - portal lights I think they only work with irmap (I could be mistaken here) but that was my impression. Using them with brute force has not speed gain.
4 - I ended up turning off dome light and using your hdr in GI section for gi/reflection/refraciton/
5 - The door window glass was actually split into 2 different single sided planes rather then a shell so that might have caused some problems with refractive caustics etc.

[glorybound]

I ended up trying BF, but I was using IRR. I'll try the HDRi in the V-Ray reflection/refraction. I did continue to work on it and so far, pretty clean, within an hour. The strange thing is I don't know Corona, and I didn't change any settings at all, and it just turned out pretty good. I'll check out your file, thanks a ton!

Hey Bobby. I had a quick look at the scene and got a clean result with some tweaking:

http://we.tl/xcZpZUg9Sw

I'm not sure what render time you will get but on my system this frame at 4k would take 3-4 hours. Now on xeon x5650 it would probably be doble. Check it out maybe it will be helpful. I think the few issues I saw were:

1 - your bg card plane was emitting gi - this is generally not a good idea it will create a ton of noise. If you really want to use it you should blur the bg image a lot and use that for gi emission. I turned it off it didn't do much.
2 - using dome light in interior is not the best idea. Tracing dome light through windows is a complex task for the renderer especially when it had hdr in it.
3 - portal lights I think they only work with irmap (I could be mistaken here) but that was my impression. Using them with brute force has not speed gain.
4 - I ended up turning off dome light and using your hdr in GI section for gi/reflection/refraciton/
5 - The door window glass was actually split into 2 different single sided planes rather then a shell so that might have caused some problems with refractive caustics etc.

[glorybound]

"1 - your bg card plane was emitting gi - this is generally not a good idea it will create a ton of noise. If you really want to use it you should blur the bg image a lot and use that for gi emission. I turned it off it didn't do much"

Do you been that garden photo, outside the window? I don't have GI turned on.

[glorybound]

I am trying your scene, but I changed to IRR low/100-50 and changed the output to 4k, which is the final delivery.