House Rendering - pool side

[glorybound]

Nope! 1 1/2hrs later and prepass says hours left. I zipped everything up and I’ll upload it. If you want to play, I’ll post the link. Download Page - powered by sendspace | File Not Available

@glorybound

You can usually ignore the initial estimates for the prepass. Often, espesially with displacement or lots of proxies, my LC calculations shoots through the roof initially to something like 300 and something hours and just keeps getting higher. But then it suddenly drops again and rarely it takes longer than 10 or 30 minutes

Just INCREASE your settings. You’ll see how cool this is. Set your HDRI dome light’s subs on 256. Your materials between 32 and 128 depending on glossy. IRmap on medium preset and just change hssubs and inter samples to 60 and 40. LC defaults but maybe 2000 subs and tick glossy rays and enable pre-filter to between 50 and 150

With these settings that scene at that res shouldnt take anything more than 4 to 5 hours

EDIT: and dmc should be min 2 and max somewhere between 32 and 50, check your sample rate element to get the optimal max setting (it should be mostly blue with well defined edges, try to get as little red as you can without loosing the edges)
noise thres default