Help With Speeding Up Render
Hi all,
I was determined to get a clean render out of mantra for this sequence, which I sort of managed to do, but the render times are just too high. I'm looking at over 5 hours per frame for something that is quite simple, as you can see from the attached screen shot.
I could get something that looked reasonable, but to stop the highlights crawling between frames I just had to turn pixel samples up high. Nothing else seemed to sort out this problem (light quality & reflection qualit
Brutal scene! The refraction is the big killer, and the sizzling refuses to go away without really high settings - both separate issues, both contribute to the slow speed. I'm using Apprentice so I can only render at 1280x720, so my baseline to render your scene ( on an old 12-core ) is about 1 hour.
What will help to reduce render times ( for this scene, not nec. all scenes ) is to use higher raytrace samples instead of higher pixel samples, to clean up noise. But you also need to set a lowe