Shadow

[glorybound]

settings

I am trying it, but it is crawling.

[paulison]

just back to the the image taking 15 minutes. To avoid wasting time trying to figure out what the cause is i think that its better to just go with the slow high settings and have it take 1 hour to render. My prelim renders take 4-12 hours and much of it may be overkill but then it saves having to worry about issues such as lighting quality & shadows etc. anyway, just my personal preference

[sea2stars]

I've always been wary of altering the irr clr thresh; well, all of the options on the right side under the basic parameters for the Irr map. Hrmm.. I guess I'll have to start playing with them on my next interior scene.

[glorybound]

Shadows

Someone suggested doing an ambient occlusion, which I did, but my ceilings and walls are 100% black. My materials for my ceiling and walls might be the issue. I am using the same material, changing the diffused, for all my walls and ceilings.

I'll investigate and report back.

http://www.whitebirchstudios.com/pub...0occlusion.png

[glorybound]

Shadows

The odd part is the center part of the fireplace was the wall material then I changed it to a tile. The last post on the railings is using the same material as all the other railing members. What could be going on?

[dlparisi]

Someone suggested doing an ambient occlusion, which I did, but my ceilings and walls are 100% black. My materials for my ceiling and walls might be the issue. I am using the same material, changing the diffused, for all my walls and ceilings.

I'll investigate and report back.

http://www.whitebirchstudios.com/pub...0occlusion.png

Your normals are most likely flipped.

[glorybound]

normals

That was it. My normals were flipped. There should be a way to show an arrow pointing in the direction of your normals.

[dlparisi]

You can display the normal vectors for selected faces or vertices by enabling Show Normals on the Selection rollout of an editable mesh object or the Edit Mesh modifier.

[glorybound]

Normals

I knew you were going to say you can , but I spoke to soon. It isn't the normals causing the issue. The hunt is on.

[glorybound]

Double faces

I had double faces going on! I have to stop working so late. You can usually tell when you have double faces in your render, but I didn't see it until I did the ambient occlusion. Thanks for all the help. Hopefully someone else can learn from my idiotic antics.