I’m zoomed way in, but I’m seeing little sparkles. My settings are already high. What should I be looking at to get rid of these? [2012-03-27_1007.png]

I get these too. Searching the forums will list a few different potential fixes for it, but sub pixel mapping seems and/or clamping seems to work best. Other options are turning off the Sun’s visibility as well as using an AA filter than handles this like blend.

I see those alot too. Usually when using an HDRI light setup. Interested to hear how you solve it…

U talking about the white dots?

Id troubleshoot it like that Apply grey shader - I assume u use displacement keep it. Render with grey shader no GI if no speckles, render again with GI if speckles - disable caustic in GI - if that didnt help then disable dispalcement and use bump - see if speckles stay… and so on…

Looks like you are using “use light cache for glossy rays” Increasing the light cache subdivs/sample size can clear this

Bobby: I stopped using HDRI’s as my light source because of the white dots. I now just use my nice HDRI’s for environments, and use the VRAY SUN. Based on Vlado’s comment above, he seems to like HDRI’s. Did you find a solution? Did DADAL’s suggestion help, or Chris’s? Thanks.

These are usually glossy reflections of glossy reflections (or specular hilights) that reflect the HDRI; we are thinking about some automatic work-arounds for these cases, but still if you can get me the scene to vlado@chaosgroup.com it will help to figure out what’s going on. Best regards, Vlado

[image] R&D bowl Bobby: I stopped using HDRI’s as my light source because of the white dots. I now just use my nice HDRI’s for environments, and use the VRAY SUN. Based on Vlado’s comment above, he seems to like HDRI’s. Did you find a solution? Did DADAL’s suggestion help, or Chris’s? Thanks. I…

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Thanks for the advice - I will give it a try!

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