animation quality

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I am trying to create a very basic animation through an interior space, just a camera moving. I followed the “typical” setup, using IM and LC. but the quality is just not there. What would be causing the lack of quality?

Thanks, guys.

Alex

Dropbox - jpmc_animationmode.mp4

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For what it’s worth, I downloaded the file to my desktop and it looked pretty nice to me. Previewing it directly from the Dropbox page, it looked really bad - way too much compression, but that’s nothing you can control - you’d be better served by posting the video to YouTube as ‘Unlisted’, then sharing a link with the client. When you say the ‘quality is just not there’, are you referring to the lighting quality?

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uh you have ‘show samples’ turned on in the IR map

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LOL - I didn’t study the image closely enough - I thought that was some kind of mosaic looking wallpaper.

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I never got lucky with animations using IM+LC. They will cause flickering if you are not good enough. Use brute force, slower but safe.

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Hey Alex,
There is no need in the latest build to go into IM, brute force will solve most of your issues with flickering and splotches etc.

Make BF + LC setup. In LC put 3000 subdivs and retrace to 8, follow camera path and set up mode to flythrough. That should be it, nice smooth clean anim.

let me know :smile:

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Thanks guys for all your feedback. I am trying BF + LC now. Problem is frames are taking 30 min! way to too long. Do you think if I changed from Bucket to Progressive that would work?

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Max subdivisions on 100 is from some very old methods, bring it down to 4 or 6 and raise the minimum shading rate to remove noise.
Noise threshold is weird too, leave that on default.

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Just revert everything to defaults, set the LC subdivs to 3000 and retrace to 8. Nothing else. There is no need for world-size light cache samples and fly-through mode; in fact this will probably make you scene render slower. Interpolation samples at 40 is way too high and will slow down rendering considerably.

All in all, a very educational example of why we should remove these options from the UI completely :slight_smile:

Best regards,
Vlado

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I am all for removing (or hiding) legacy stuff that is no longer relevant to today’s workflows. Bit of spring cleaning is in order :slight_smile:

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Alexworx - If you want to send me your files I will render it out for you.
My farm is free at the moment

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Hi Vlado, i agree with you, remove it, thank you.