[rshanks]

I've gone from red ffs in the render and black ffs in the preview in 1.5 OSX to white ffs in the render and still black ffs in the preview with 1.5.1. (ffs = fireflies. ) This is with renderings of diamond jewelry that worked in 1.1. If I hide the diamonds, no ffs. I tried rendering with the diamond_simple material and the diamond complex material. Both had ffs.

Is it a dispersion thing? Hmmm... I guess I could go try that.

Other than that, 1.5.1 is working great! > THANKS, NEXT LIMIT TEAM!!!

If I missed a solution to this, lemme know. I've been trying to read everything on the forum I could. (arg, must quit playing with Maxwell and GO TO BED.)

Roberto

[rshanks]

Nope, not just dispersion. rs

[rshanks]

Oh yeah - I'm using a:

Apple Intel quad processor
2Gb
OSX 10.4.9

Parallels Desktop
Rhino

[Q2]

Same here. I only get them darn white dots in the final rendering with the mxcl renderer, not in the preview in studio though.....

Have you found out anything yet?

Q! Berlin

[sampson]

am still getting these white dots (only seems to happen on the OSX version) and have so far found the following.

White dots appear when: roughness is set between 1-10 & or attenuation is above 1nm. I can only seem to get them with transparent materials.

..the only fix i've found is to set the roughness to zero

...anyone else had any ideas?

(edit, ...if you need to roughen the surface up you can add an extra bsdf layer with roughness)

[Q2]

hi sampson

you are right. I set the roughness to 0 and the white dots are gone. But how would I make a white plastic with 10% roughness now? DANG thats a real bad bug, man. Hope NL can figure this out pretty soon!

Q! Berlin

[sampson]

...add a second bsdf with roughness & it'll work.

...also i've just dicovered that if you chuck in a second bsdf and just switch it off you also loose the white dots, ...so perhaps thats a better fix.

[Q2]

wired!!!!!!!

Will try that. Thanks for now!

Q! Berlin

[sampson]

...did you mean weird? ...or have you just had too much coffee

[Q2]

must be the coffee!!!!!!

[Q2]

sampson....

for me this :


...add a second bsdf with roughness & it'll work.

...also i've just dicovered that if you chuck in a second bsdf and just switch it off you also loose the white dots, ...so perhaps thats a better fix...


does NOT work. I still get those darn white dots......

Q! Berlin

[sampson]

...strange, have left tests going overnight & it seems to work fine here. is it possible you still have a mat in your scene that you havn't updated?

[Q2]

Sampson...

Here's a pic, all materials are completely new and everyhing is set up with the 1.5.1 version only. Heck, I don't know what to do anymore....

NEXT LIMIT. ANYONE. PLEASE HELP US OUT HERE!!!!!!!!

[sampson]

woa! thats not good. Not sure what to recommend now. I have a few spare hours today so if you want you can mail me the scene & i'll take a look, but apart from that i'm at a loss.

would be good to hear what someone at NL thinks.

[Q2]

Cool. I just sent you a PM....