Interior Multiple Lights, Faster?

[Antisthenes_cg]

how to make interior shots with multiple lights faster?

[dalomar_cg]

Re: Interior Multiple Lights, Faster?

Well, there are two things that you could do... First one is use the CutOff feature that was added in SR1. This will stop calculating lights if they are a certain distance away, so lights that are too faint to affect anything anyway don't get worried about. The second thing is switch your lights (if they aren't already) over to Rec Lights, and then choose Store With Irradiance Map. This will sample the direct lighting within the IR sequence so that there's less to sample directly as the image renders. Keep in mind with this one that the quality of the direct light solution will be tied to the IR quality.

[Antisthenes_cg]

Re: Interior Multiple Lights, Faster?

a quick call to tech and i got the help i needed with the settings to make it faster

now i have a lighting issue, see thread