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Here is my first GI test,

The top and bottom image has the same settings, i've just enable the GI !

I'm going to work on gi and sampling settings to reduce noise !

(render time without GI -> 14s and with GI -> 150s )

Looking good.  What are you lighting it with?  Just a direct light?

I am interested to see how you go on with getting the GI to clear up, I have been trying to get a clean scene for over a week now.

Keep it up :-)

Cheers

Neil

A directinonal Light for the sun, an rectangular area light in the window hole, and in the GI shaderlight panel, i check 'Enable' ( photon : 10 000, Samples : 1000, subsampling : 2 )

But i've got better result without ART pro mat. ( with ARTpro, render took much time and SL crached manytimes )

Hello !!

I made a very interesting test !

I  rendered the scene without GI, and tried to obtain the same result :

I just used a skylight to increase the ambient light, Ambient occlusion, and a little red omni in the center of the teapot to fake radiosity... :oP

render time -> 63s

I find ShaderLight's ambient occlusion very powerful and really practical to use !!

2 suggestions :

- Be able to choose the AO's color

- Be able to have a factor of more than 1

Hi dgeph,

The team have worked really hard on GI improvements in Shaderlight V1.0. We would like to run some tests with you to compare the performance of ART Pro material with GI in V1.0

Please could you email support@artvps.com with your test scene, current performance figures and basic machine specs.

Also thanks for your suggestions, I will make sure these ideas get put forwards in to the development of Shaderlight.

Please keep them coming.

Doc

Hi,

I've just download the demo version of SL 1.0 and start new art pro, gi and ao test !

First test, Ao and art pro With SL1.0

here is my render

( render time -> 450s )

EDIT

Sorry...i 've made a mystake the render time is for GI test, for AO render time -> 150s

150s, but there is an art pro mat with glossy reflection !!

Took much time, but the result is much better ( i noticed that art pro mat render darker than standard mat ...here i've raised the aera light intensity by 10)