On 03/03/2011 1:44 PM, Mike Raiford wrote:
> My personal recipe:
>
> Confidence .9
> Variance 1/64
> Samples to taste, for quicker renders, 10 does the job. For final
> renders I'll go as high as 1000.
>
> Why 1/64 on variance? Well, pixel-to-pixel it's very hard to see the
> difference between a value that's 4 levels different than the next
> (Though 3.7's gamma may change that in shadow or highlight areas) If you
> must, go for the default variance. It slows a little bit, but not much.
> As for confidence? Dunno. .9 is just sort of an arbitrary value.
>
> Either than or start with the defaults, They're good enough (except
> samples) occasionally I'll push confidence to 3 nines or even 4 nines,
> if I think I'm going to get anything out of it.

Thanks I'm running a render on my old dual core laptop. with the default 
values and samples 10 and aperture 0.400.
It is rendering at 8 pps 2 hours into it an 17% done.

I'll try variance = 1/64 next.

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Regards
     Stephen

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