clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 20.11.2016 um 16:52 schrieb omniverse:
> > probably because I almost always use radiosity together with it. And you're not
> > kidding about the slowness of area lights, makes me reduce SSS samples and light
> > grid number out of desperation.
>
> Have you considered trying UberPOV? It does include some mechanisms that
> might trim down render times considerably when multiple oversampling
> effects (e.g. focal blur, SSS, area lights, anti-aliasing) are combined.

I'm using UberPOV mostly for the things specific to it so haven't really
compared until now.

Checking on that I found good news and bad news. The bad first.
Shadows from area light looks like jitter is always on even though that keyword
is left out.
The good news is it can be very fast.

More bad news, because even when attempting to equal the shadow appearances (and
they won't for whatever reason unknown to me) the subsurface scattering gets
worse not better. This with everything the same other than changing area_light
adaptive. Can only guess SSS requires more sampling when adaptive is increased,
just not tried yet.

Sorry Jim, for not starting a new topic. Will do so here in image group to show
the comparison.

Bob

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