Vrayight vs Photometric/ies light.

[reza]

im not sure if anyone has posted this before...but i have found numeros times that vray lights with poor setings produce splotches/white/orang/red..but the minute i delete them and replace photometric light...things were ok. anyone with the similar findings?

[natty]

nope, never had that before .... had allsorts of splotches for other reasons, but not vray lights ...

[OmeN]

I recon the IES lights [do you mean the ones from erco?] look great but render slower ?

[natty]

i found that the erco Starpiont ies files render pretty fast, better than others.

[OmeN]

I've got 8 downlights in my scene, I recon maybe they are slowing it down a touch, however I havent experimented with lighting just yet, still texturing this b!tch

[natty]

to be honest i dont think it matter's how long the final render takes because i always do the final image overnight ... but what does matter to me is the test render's through out the day ... so i play around with the qmc settings and found i can get very fast renders with the right light amount and everything else but a little blotchy ... but super fast renders.

[OmeN]

Yup mate I do exactly the same thing - BUT im rendering for animations...
thus I need speed probably a bit more than for stills.
My renders are taking too long at the moment which is annoying me, and im not sure whether its due to scale or not?

[natty]

Animations have always been a sticky piont with me cos i do internals which means longer render time ...and its hard to get the right balance between speed and quality

[OmeN]

Telling me buddy !
I havent begun the joy of rendering yet...i see some problems ahead - lol