Noisy Mess

[Art48]

Maybe obvious - but did you look for duplicated geometry/faces?

[joconnell]

there ya go - https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsq3rkfhqc..._2014.zip?dl=0

[glorybound]

Thank you!

there ya go - https://www.dropbox.com/s/gsq3rkfhqc..._2014.zip?dl=0

[glorybound]

I did have some, but that didn't really fix anything.

Maybe obvious - but did you look for duplicated geometry/faces?

[glorybound]

I am finally getting to the scene and I notice two things. One, you turned off the dome HDRI lights and second, you are not using the camera exposure. So, I am confused. There is no other light source, other than the small fixtures, so what is illuminating the scene? It's rendering really clean and fast, but I am not sure what voodoo you used.

[glorybound]

Okay, I see. You have planes in the windows. Interesting... why not use a V-Ray Sky in the Environment slot?

[joconnell]

My big issue with the dome or with the environment slot was thay both had a hard time getting light rays in through the windows so it made sense to just put plane lights and be very direct.

[glorybound]

What was the reason for turning the cameras exposure off?

[joconnell]

At the start I was trying to figure out if the lights were too bright or dark, when I did an initial grey override it was exceptionally noisy and I wanted to eliminate any oddities in the camera object - turned out the lights were incredibly low. f1.4 is probably a bit soft for an interior shot I reckon and there was no other major benefit of the physical camera really. I personally don't use it much at all.

[glorybound]

I guess I never tried to work without the camera exposure enabled. Anyway, thanks for the assistance.

[joconnell]

All good dude.