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Title: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 11:55:05 AM
Has anyone ever tried rendering pyramids? I get weird saturations, color bleeds, and lines/dark circles on some of them. I tried it on an empty scene and it still did it.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: bobbystahr on June 26, 2017, 12:49:44 PM
I've sometims got this with .obj imports and if I run them thru PoseRay first and hit 'Recalculate normals' in the Groups tab it sorts that out; at least for me.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 02:04:24 PM
I don't have poseray. If you get a second, would you mind making a few pyramids and recalculate the normals? Then render them from a low angle with some shading side showing to see if you get the same problem. If your's work, maybe you could send them to me to try. Thanks Bobby.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: bobbystahr on June 26, 2017, 02:26:20 PM
Quote from: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 02:04:24 PM
I don't have poseray. If you get a second, would you mind making a few pyramids and recalculate the normals? Then render them from a low angle with some shading side showing to see if you get the same problem. If your's work, maybe you could send them to me to try. Thanks Bobby.

Actually I did that but with the pyramids I made in Imagine3D and exported as .lwo  looked O K bo unchanged and with recalculate normals engaged.
here's a zip of the two as .obj, let me know if they're better and if so I'll happily gonvert er convert yours for you.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: bobbystahr on June 26, 2017, 03:06:06 PM
Quote from: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 11:55:05 AM
Has anyone ever tried rendering pyramids? I get weird saturations, color bleeds, and lines/dark circles on some of them. I tried it on an empty scene and it still did it.

could that be cloud shadows?
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 03:22:19 PM
Not shadows, some sort of GI problem. Thanks, I'll try your pyramids and let you know.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 04:18:58 PM
No dice. Your pyramids same as mine.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: Oshyan on June 26, 2017, 04:43:30 PM
Looks like a GI issue. What are your GI settings, including those for GISD? Try disabling GISD.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: bobbystahr on June 26, 2017, 04:47:45 PM
Quote from: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 04:18:58 PM
No dice. Your pyramids same as mine.

sigh...well I tried
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: Kadri on June 26, 2017, 05:44:52 PM

Your sun is very low. Look at the soft shadow options in the Sunlight settings.
If you have it "On" it might be the reason at least for the different underside look on the pyramids.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 06:09:38 PM
Thanks Kadri, sun is real low (3), however it happens even when it's high. Soft shadows are off.
@Oshyan, I turned off GISD, not sure what it will do to the rest of the image, but it took off the marks on the pyramids, however the saturation this looks off. The pyramids are one object with the same material.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 26, 2017, 08:44:43 PM
Quote from: Oshyan on June 26, 2017, 04:43:30 PM
Looks like a GI issue. What are your GI settings, including those for GISD? Try disabling GISD.

The settings were default 1,1,24
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: KlausK on June 27, 2017, 04:06:17 AM
hi dorianvan

here is a file that seems to work ok.
At least I cannot make out any artifacts on the pyramids on my monitor.
Compare the sunlight settings. I turned off a few things.
Important seems to be cranking up GI cache detail and GI sample detail, I found.
Turning on Supersample Prepass seems to have the most influence, though.
This all leads longer render times, unfortunately.
The artifacts appear in different places on the objects when changing settings.
Makes it kinda hard to debug...

If that is for a animation as well I would not waste too much time on this now.
Perhaps you could hide some of the artifacts with a little noise on the objects or something...?

Good luck!
cheers, Klaus

Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: Oshyan on June 27, 2017, 08:47:59 PM
Indeed, my next suggestion was going to be to increase GI settings, particularly Sample Quality. Try a value of 4, for example, for sample quality. You could also try increasing the GI Blur Radius a bit, maybe 20 or so (default is 8).

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: dorianvan on June 29, 2017, 09:02:49 AM
Thanks Klaus, but when you go to a low camera angle it's there again.
@Oshyan, thanks but I upped every GI, padding, etc. setting I could think of already. When I upped the blur radius it smoothed it out much like turning off GISD, but the weird darker saturation of the farther pyramid and lighting on the big one was still there. Matt told me this is a bug, worked on it, sent me a new build to test. So I will install today and try it out.
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: bobbystahr on June 29, 2017, 09:10:39 AM
Quote from: dorianvan on June 29, 2017, 09:02:49 AM
Thanks Klaus, but when you go to a low camera angle it's there again.
Matt told me this is a bug, worked on it, sent me a new build to test. So I will install today and try it out.

Ooooh, good for us in the coming update as well
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: KlausK on June 29, 2017, 02:09:04 PM
yep, good to know this gets fixed.
cheers, Klaus
Title: Re: Rendering Pyramids
Post by: Oshyan on June 30, 2017, 08:34:46 PM
Yep, glad Matt found the root and was able to adjust something for a fix.

- Oshyan