What on Mars is going on here?

[Dave Black]

Looks like you're samples are'nt high enough...

-3DZ

:D

[Balab]

my samples are 250... do you think thats not enough?
What do you typicaly use?

Thanx

[Dave Black]

Nah, that's high enough. I usually use 20 samples for tests, and 100 to 220 for finals.

There could be some other issues.

Could you take a screencap of you're advanced lighting dialog?

Just so we can rule some things out.

-3DZ

:D

[Balab]

Here you are guys!:bounce:

[CoolmoeDee]

I haven't played with the lighttracer in max 5 yet. But I would get black dots in my renders if my shadow samples were too low and increasing the samples solved the problem. Maybe that's what's going on in your render.

[Balab]

Shadow samples? Did you mean rays per sample?

[CoolmoeDee]

I meant the shadow sample option you get when you choose the cast shadow map option for a light.
like I said i haven't use the lighttracer in max 5. i just thought that they might be a similar option for the lightracer.

[Refracted]

nah.. that doesn't look like sample problems actually.. that looks more like "CFC" (coincident face crud, term copyrighted by zeboxx :) ). Happens with brazil anyway, when there are 2 faces at exactly the same location, the raytracer doesn't know which to "choose" and as a result, you get weird artiacts. This usually happens with.. 0-height extrusions, and importing of cad models (autocad is notorious for creating double-faces). I'd check out that wall to make sure you dont have double-faces.

[Balab]

Originally posted by Refracted
nah.. that doesn't look like sample problems actually.. that looks more like "CFC" (coincident face crud, term copyrighted by zeboxx :) ).

Yes I thought about that but I am positive that there is only one face there! But thanks anyway. Any other Ideas?:hmm:

[cgbinho]

the wall could be intersectioning with other object.. and causing brazil to f** up.

[ZeBoxx]

cgbinho :

The scene contains a skylight and a sunlight and its Lightraycer all the way.

:rolleyes:

Best regards,
Richard Annema

[dominicqwek]

turn on supersampling for your mat. try hammersly sampling.

[mrapelje]

Change your filter size from 0.5 to 3 and that should fix it.

[Balab]

ThanX ... this must be it, I also installed the 5.1 upgrade and everything is fine now.

Thanks again guys!:buttrock:

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