SS2 Flicker and Slow Renders

[Zach Gray]

I tried the universal settings, but it was going to take 6+ hours. For a 720p frame!

This is the simplest shot in the entire film.... I'm starting to have grave concerns about being able to render my shots with 13 characters.

[MoonDoggie]

Can you please post a SS of your Anti-aliasing settings?

[Zach Gray]

Support got back to me on the slowness... was caused by a singleShadingSwitch. I took out the switch and just created 3 shaders with linked attrs, 4x faster. I'm still working on the flickering.

These are the settings I think I was using for the 4.5hr frames. Still seems a bit long for 720p at /4 at 1 hour.

[mr furious]

I believe you want your adaptive amount to be 1 (fully adaptive) if your your using the "universal" method. Otherwise it won't fully resolve.

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[MoonDoggie]

Adaptive DMC at 2,10 0.01 is pretty grainy because your clr threshold is too high

change it to 2,8 0.004 and check results.

[Zach Gray]

If anyone is interested, the issue that was causing the flicker was the intensity of the sun/sky. Changed it down to .03 and it resolved. Was using color mapping to bring within range previously.

[Mrguy]

Good call. I was just about to suggest your lighting. I recently did a turn around of a girl using SSS and it seemed to render fine with no flickering.