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[glorybound]

After over a month of fighting this (luckily the client is slow to give me feedback), I had to try something else. I launched Corona and it seems to be rendering just fine.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

sad to hear that, but good that you solved it anyway.
The support guys are also pretty responsive per phone btw - if you can handle the time zone difference!

[glorybound]

I never thought about calling.

[glorybound]

So, rendering my scene with Corona was successful. With Corona DR, my scene rendered as fast as V-Ray GPU, only it is a clean render. What's up? I couldn't even render these out using V-Ray CPU (3+hours) without cranking setting 2X higher to get a clean render and I was still getting weird artifacts.

[MANUEL_MOUSIOL]

Could you give some specs about what hardware you used for rendering? DR could be anything from two cpus to a huge render farm
Did you just render the vray scene in Corona or did a conversion and tweaked materials?
i never used Corona...

[glorybound]

I have my main machine and then a Render Pro 2 as my slave, which honestly, isn't much help. I just converted the scene to Corona and hit render, so no extra work there.

[remco]

i had the same thing, for me it was the auto exposure / auto white balance that screwed things up between my main machine and DR slave's