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Area Light Shadow Noise in tS7 About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Area Light Shadow Noise in tS7 // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by frank // Mar 8, 2006, 5:00pm frank Total Posts: 709 When doing some first test renders with Vray I noticed the noise on the shadows cast by area lights. The only thing that seemed to get rid of this was to scale the light down in size (and then increase intensity to compensate for this). I never used the Link Editor for anything until I spoke with a few experts in the beta forum who suggested changing a setting on the area light within the LE. I've included some test images as well as a screencap of the of the Area Light dialog in LE. Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be a noticeable difference in render speeds (I'm sure there's a difference - but like I say...not noticeable to me). Post by Vizu // Mar 15, 2006, 1:21pm Vizu Total Posts: 628 Weeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa and thanky Frank for this lesson of "How Lights works " The Lightoption Panel is in the Link Editor ?` Can you tell us how we can come to this panel ? I never saw this before. Post by frank // Mar 15, 2006, 2:43pm frank Total Posts: 709 Viz: I'm attaching an image to explain how this is done. (Thanks to the guys in the beta forum for telling me about this!) Hope it helps! P.S. In the post above I mention that there's not a noticeable difference in render speed. Well, it appears that in higher resolution (polycount) models (see character in image), it seems to make an exponential difference. The above tests were done with simple cubes and the shadows were calculated quickly no matter what I had AreaSamples set to. P.S.S. Be sure to check the AreaSamples value before EACH render. It constantly changes itself back to default. Post by Vizu // Mar 15, 2006, 9:56pm Vizu Total Posts: 628 Weeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa this is exactly what i looking for. Thanky Mr. Frank "knows all" Lad

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