"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Another great image, you certainly have mastered this style of image. I would
> like to know though how you managed to get an image with radiosity, SSLT and
> focal blur to render in 1h 55m! Do you have access to some kind of HPC ;-)
>
> Sean

Many thanks & cheers! =)

Luckily this scene isn't particularly complex, thus I went with all the settings
somewhat close to the defaults and with only slight fine-tunings here and there.
Also, as the image came out quite dark, I was furthermore able to have the
settings a bit lower as well without the final image quality suffering too much.

Generally when building up my images, along time I feel I've found some quite
nice personal custom settings for radiosity, focal blur and SSLT that I then
tend to use from scene to another with ofc slight fine-adjustments where needed.
It's been a lot of trial and error while getting to understand how different
values and variables work, while also trying to keep the rendering times
sensible.

Having this one render in just under 2 hours actually surprised myself too. =D

As for my PC, I'm having an AMD FX-8350 4GHz 8-core processor and 16 GB RAM
inside. I built this machine around a year ago and it's been working nicely for
my needs. =)

PS. It was also a good idea to rightaway change the horrible bulk CPU fan to a
good Noctua one, I managed to drop the CPU temp around 20 celsius degrees lower,
which is always nice while having longer renders going.

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