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Just a quick update to show another method that seems to work great.

This render uses similar settings I mentioned before and use An8 Lights

AA = 100, time = 30min

This render however uses no "lights", its totally self illuminated (and different to the lightsabre shown elsewhere) and uses a much simpler material setting

AA = 196, time = 45min

the material set for this is
Ambient =0
Diffuse = 0
Specular = 1 + Texture
Emissive = 1 + Texture (For Model Light only)
Rough = 0
Attributes = class(glossyreflector)

So now there is no more huge numbers - but lights must be built-in to the object or use sky.

One odd thing, the light seems to radiate with bias toward the camera...

Trev

All triangles have a "front" and "back" face. Most environments cull back faces to improve rendering time, you need to stop that from happening with the "volumetric Sprite" (and Im not sure how you are not clear about what I mean when you attach an image of exactly what Im talking about :S )

Also, there is no post, its an image which is already attached in my post above.

Trev

Agreed, You don't want a sphere here, you want sprites.

You can also do it via "volumetric" sprites (see lightsaber)


Trev

sorry steve, I don't mean the left hand toolbar, I mean in "Options > [ ]Backside" and "View > Preferences > [ ]Backside"

Disabling these makes no difference in the viewport.

Trev

you can use CAD view (looks like a ruler) and debug A

Oh wow, CAD view has been updated to show legnths of selected lines and angles between them. (whoops, apparently this has been true since Dec 2017)

As for grid, just set it in grid settings.

Ohh… I see, yeah ok, it rounds back to 0.06 instead of 4dp.

Trev

oh, haha, I know we can do it manually, I was meaning more a An8 feature for Steve , it would certainly make ART unique.

haha, I couldn't resist testing my old lightsaber in the new ART

10:33 for full self illumination (DIR) with 64AA - there are no "Lights" in the scene

Final image has corona as close to Z-Near as possible.

Trev

I have 2 physical cores and 4 logical cores = 4 threads. I suspect that you have 4 physical cores and 8 logical cores - that's what Intel calls a "8 core cpu".

Erm... no... I have 8 cores, 16 threads, Im not mistaken

Hmm, looking at the cores, it would seem that they are all doing something since right before pressing render they were all more-or-less idle, however only 8 red lines ever show up on the preview.

maybe Im missing something?

Ok, so doing some tests with affinity and priority it seems you made a comment earlier that less cores could be faster, it seems your right, limiting to the first thread of each core actually works out faster than allowing all threads to run.


Trev