POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : SSLT not working so well : Re: SSLT not working so well Server Time
30 Apr 2024 03:06:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: SSLT not working so well  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 6 Feb 2018 20:16:28
Message: <5a7a536c$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/6/2018 4:40 AM, clipka wrote:
> Am 05.02.2018 um 21:31 schrieb Mike Horvath:
>> Can anyone diagnose the cause of all the dirty marks on the materials?
>> Lowering the translucency helped a lot, but I don't know if that's the
>> actual cure or something else. Thanks.
> 
> Due to its inner workings, SSLT /per se/ is prone to high-frequency
> noise, that may sometimes exhibit a pattern. However, what I see in the
> image appears block-ish (on the wide red wall) or blotch-ish (left sides
> of the pieces making up the "DFC." writing), which strongly points
> towards radiosity as the culprit.
> 
> Using more pretrace steps will probably help. Also, make sure to use
> "always_sample off" (the default as of v3.7).
> 
> 
> As for SSLT, at the size you're rendering, I doubt that subsurface
> scattering will make much of a difference. Most LEGO bricks are not very
> translucent. The lighting situation (comparatively strong diffuse
> illumination from all sides, very few shadows visible) is also a
> situation where SSLT would have little prominent effect.
> 

Yeah, my mistake. I will turn it off.


Mike


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