animation tricks

[simon123]

Hi all just starting out doing some animation
have rendered passes etc after reading the standard documentation but i am getting some sparkly bits on chrome furniture and where it seems the sun ( hdri ) hits the glazed brick walls.

help much appreciated will post images if i am allowed later!

[simon123]

Ok so after a lot of faffing its clamp output thingy majig.
but now i have lost the nice glossy highlight... anytips

thanks

[simon123]

ok so just rendered test anim all looks fine and dandy, any tips on trees etc? i have various models and have converted them to proxies but rendering time is stupid. i only have 1 machine
(with 24cores and 24gig of ram)

anyone?

[bob-cat]

try using adaptive dmc sampler, may speed your renders up.

[simon123]

hi yeah thanks... all good so far loads of vray proxies in the scene all looking fine and dandy will try and post something when its finished. 4 days to render!

[jacksc02]

Post up your settings simon. That way we can help out some more

[simon123]

ok settings
1280 x 720
4000 frames

adaptive dmc
subdivisons min 1 max 5 clr threshold 0.0005
ir min -3
max-1
hsph 15
int 20

pre calc
irr map
lc 8000 0.012 screen
retrace 1.0

dmc adap 0.7
noise .005
min samples 100

thanks will post image when i pull my finger out.

[tricky]

ok settings
1280 x 720
4000 frames

adaptive dmc
subdivisons min 1 max 5 clr threshold 0.0005
ir min -3
max-1
hsph 15
int 20

pre calc
irr map
lc 8000 0.012 screen
retrace 1.0

dmc adap 0.7
noise .005
min samples 100

thanks will post image when i pull my finger out.

adaptive dmc min=1, max=8. Clr thresh=0.007
ir min=-10, max =-1
hsph = default (50 I think?)
int = default
lc = 1500-2000 depending on how much movement in the camera, world size at the dedault

Just quick settings from top of my head.

[simon123]

cool cheers mate for the heads up... im struggling with deadline as it is now a week less!.
I think my trees are too complex, geometry wise and frames go from no trees 3 mins a frame to 9 mins + a frame. 4500 frames..... ho hum.!