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    • thomthomT Offline
      thomthom
      last edited by

      Ah - It's DMC as secondary. Have you tried LC as secondary?

      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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        thomthom
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        Also - what is your output resolution?

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          EDMON242004
          last edited by

          I haven't tried the lc as secondary, will it lessen my render time? My output is just small around 1300x700,. What do you think is it too big?

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          • thomthomT Offline
            thomthom
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            @edmon242004 said:

            I haven't tried the lc as secondary, will it lessen my render time?

            DMC is the slowest mode. I usually start with IR+LC. I only change to DMC if the scene has lots of small details or the glossy reflections isn't good enough with IR+LC. But then I usually change primary to DMC, not the secondary.

            @edmon242004 said:

            My output is just small around 1300x700,. What do you think is it too big?

            No - not too big, but it does matter for IR.
            If you make a test render that looks good at 640x480 with max/min at -/0 - then, when you render at double that size 1280x960 you can decrease max/min to -4/-1.

            http://vray.info/topics/t0101.asp

            Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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              Karlfucious
              last edited by

              Turn on detail enhancement. It will help to bring out the small details so you don't need to use as high settings for the Irr Map. Also try lowering your irradiance Map samples to around 25.

              As thom mentioned use light cache instead of DMC.

              Finally buy some more ram. Ram is relatively cheap nowadays and 1 gig is pretty low by today's standards.

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                Karlfucious
                last edited by

                Also use a skylight portal in the window if you aren't already. It will help with reducing GI artifacts.

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                • thomthomT Offline
                  thomthom
                  last edited by

                  Note that Detail Enhancement is brute force like DMC - so it will add to rendering times. And it adds noise as DMC does.

                  Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                    Karlfucious
                    last edited by

                    From what I understood Detail enhancement was similar to an AO pass for nice sharp contact shadows so you didn't have to use as high settings for Irr map. I could be mistaken though.

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                    • thomthomT Offline
                      thomthom
                      last edited by

                      Yes - it somewhat is - but it does that by using a brute force method.

                      Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
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                        EDMON242004
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                        Hi Thom & Kalf, I just found something curious about the vray settings (don't know if it's only in my case) I just change the override viewport and get view aspect in the output menu and my renders was lessen to almost twice the render time and with the same settings that took me 6 hours same scene and same output size, here is the screen shot, don't know why2010-03-27_08-01_V-Ray for SketchUp - Render.jpg

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