[Miguel Piñón]

Hi all,

I try to fake the sun light for an interior image, with a plane like just made in previous Maxwell version and work fine!!! for clear the noise much faster.

But it´s my first try with version 2.1.00 and the noise still clear fast but mixing with normal emitters lamps the lamps make alot of noise......

The sun as I said, is a plane with very high emitter value (1e+10w) and the spots lights (10000w) maybe is the great emitter values diference??? but if I decrease the "sun" power in the material properties, the sun energy does not appear although if I increase the intensity from the Multilight bar.

Is the same trick as I do in previous versions but it doesn´t work in this version

Hope understand the problem with my very bad english!!!

The images speak better than I do.....











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[choo-chee]

will help to know size of sun plane,location and power....interior emmitters can slow render significantly

[numerobis]

how did you set up the spot lights?
...with a chrome material and the emitter encapsulated behind a glas plane?

[oz42]

why 'fake' the sun? Wouldn't it be quicker just to set up the render with physical sky??

Also, unless you are trying to do a night render as well, the spotlights don't seem to contribute to the interior illumination vey much. Could you get away with replacing the spotlights with a very bright white diffuse material instead of an actual emitter?

[Miguel Piñón]

will help to know size of sun plane,location and power....interior emmitters can slow render significantly

The size of the sun is a single 1m x 1m plane, and the power is 10000000000 (1e+10W) to fake the sun power.... The interior emitters works quite fine if I delete the "fake sun" a turn on the "physical sun". And yes with interior emitters slow down the render "benckmark" but clean more fast those emitters.

how did you set up the spot lights?
...with a chrome material and the emitter encapsulated behind a glas plane?

The spots set up is the same as I always make with out any problem....... the problem is caused I suposed, by the great diferences betwen the emitters power sun=10000000000w and interior spots=10000w.

Any way the setup is a 4 sides spheres inside the spot lamp and without a glass cover, as I told, i allways use this setup an clean faster.

why 'fake' the sun? Wouldn't it be quicker just to set up the render with physical sky??

Also, unless you are trying to do a night render as well, the spotlights don't seem to contribute to the interior illumination vey much. Could you get away with replacing the spotlights with a very bright white diffuse material instead of an actual emitter?

"fake" the sun is quit fast for clean the noise instead the "Physical Sun", I already do the comparisions renders and is quite superior the image result in the same time of render, the problem comes when I try to use fake sun and the Interior emitters.

As I told the setup is the that I made in older's maxwell version but in 2 maybe is a bug caused for the high power emitters diferences!!!

Any comment NL???