Mzigaib Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) Maybe if there was a way to increase light samples on the object according to his distance from the camera that could help, so since they are instances the ones that are further away get more light samples than the close ones. Edited June 10, 2016 by Mzigaib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidandmj Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 i think that is possible if you add a properties vop to the shading network connected to outputs and add the light samples as a parameter...then you can override that parameter with an attribute on the geometry.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atom Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 It looks to me that the problem is in the specular of the leaf material. Try turning it off for distant trees. If you are using an HDRi light in the scene try blurring it out. Some of those fireflies might be coming from HDR high frequency values. You may want to drop the Color Limit on the Mantra node down to 4 from 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzigaib Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) Considering all tips I may have found the main problem and I've found that the values to solve the problem may have to be really huge, huge comparing to my usual setup. I've found that the environment result is working fine so far as for the direct lighting I have a back sunlight which the results are really flickering even with a light sample of 64 and pixel samples 8X8 so now I am going to try to increase the light samples lot see what happens, I'll update soon as I have more results. Edited June 10, 2016 by Mzigaib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybar Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Not infront of Houdini atm, but I've had issues with crawling/flickery reflections before (mainly highlights). The only thing that really helped was cranking pixel samples really really high, OR adding the "Jitter" parameter on your Mantra ROP and turning it off. Don't know if its changed anything in later houdini versions, but you could try that if you haven't already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzigaib Posted June 10, 2016 Author Share Posted June 10, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the tip dude! Didn't try the jitter option yet, I'll do it for sure I'll let you know the results. Edited June 10, 2016 by Mzigaib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzigaib Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) A little update: it seems that to reduce the flickering the only way I found was to increase pixel samples a lot, no matter how I increase ray and light samples with lower pixel samples for small and with high frequency details it doesn't work and whats funny is that if I reduce ray and light samples and increase the pixel samples I got a faster render comparing to lower pixel samples and higher light and ray samples, I still get noise but it is acceptable except for some fireflies but I think with a high ray and light samples and can get it acceptable too. Anyway I got very small difference in noise between 12X12 and 16X16 pixel samples but the render times are very different more than double. Anyway if you want high quality result in this case there is no magic you have to crack settings up. Any tips still will be welcome. 12X12 16X16 Edited June 13, 2016 by Mzigaib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybar Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 Did you try the 'Jitter' parameter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzigaib Posted June 13, 2016 Author Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) Not yet, I also forgot to decrease the color limit that's why the fireflies are shiny, but I'll try. Thanks! Edited June 13, 2016 by Mzigaib Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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