Grant Warwick- Mastering Vray: Material Ideas Needed.

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@samuel_bubat

Starting to go OT, but in that post the cleaner render is nearly double the render time, so although it is cleaner it also takes longer which is what I’d expect. Is it a case of “it’ll take longer, but nowhere near as long as doing it incorrectly”?

Yes.

This is the render with 1/8 AA and 100 subdivs for the light and material. (1m 7s - cleaner and faster render)
http://www.cggallery.com/temp/forums/02\_p8\_s100.jpg

And this is the render with 1/100 AA and 8 subdivs for the light and material - AKA the so-called ‘universal’ V-Ray settings. (1m 11s - noiser and slower render)
http://www.cggallery.com/temp/forums/01\_p100\_s8.jpg

There’s plenty of info covering this in the Understand DMC Sampler thread if you want to learn more.