Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Hi. I am working with a scene I already shared many times in the forum. I realize it was a bit optimistic from my side to start using lux with these types of scenes. I am already in the dance...so too late to not finish.

After feeding 100 bounces in the path depth properties...I manage to get a clear acrylic material. Unfortunately, now I am dealing with awful fairflies.
It might have to do with the light only coming from an hdr and not having enough light in the scene to light the intrincated areas.
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Do you think i need an extra area light in the flor pointing the ceiling in order to give some lig,ht to the grid areas ? Is there anyway to workaround this by tweaking the render settings properties?

Thank you
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It turns out to be an absolutely delightful project!
The glass looks so great that you stare into it.
At the expense of fireflies - I would advise to render a small area (ctrl + b) to a noise level of 15 (or even 10). And try using a squelch. Both OIDN and BCD know how to remove them. And the BCD even has a special enable option against these fireflies.
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Dez! wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:01 am It turns out to be an absolutely delightful project!
The glass looks so great that you stare into it.
At the expense of fireflies - I would advise to render a small area (ctrl + b) to a noise level of 15 (or even 10). And try using a squelch. Both OIDN and BCD know how to remove them. And the BCD even has a special enable option against these fireflies.
Thanks so much for the feedback...I am doing a test with 3000 samples...I am probably draining all the energy of the coffe place I am.
I would love to ask a few things, not sure what is "squelch". I searched in google and non of the definitions came to the right context hahah


I am using OIDIN, you think I should switch to the other denoiser BCD?
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Test with OIDIN 3000 samples and a lot of time to render for a small 1000x1000
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if anything, coffee can be brewed over a fire. don't worry about them :)
when I find problem areas, I draw a frame around them, and try to "squeeze out power" - the noise level. I usually rate 10 or 15 for commercial projects.
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BCD has such a function, try it. I use it sometimes.
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Here a test of 1000 samples with BCD and the fairflies future active. Not happy with the result...It erases a lot of the details and the fireflies are still present. If someone has another workaround I would highly appreciate it.
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Dez! wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 9:39 am if anything, coffee can be brewed over a fire. don't worry about them :)
when I find problem areas, I draw a frame around them, and try to "squeeze out power" - the noise level. I usually rate 10 or 15 for commercial projects.
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BCD has such a function, try it. I use it sometimes.
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I am will try now with OIDIN and the advance settings you proposed! Thank you!
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I am trying with your method...its 40 minutes and 4000 samples...my god...This is a low res render..I can not imagine how long it will take to make a still render in high res of this frame...
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What is your clamping value ?
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really!
How could I forget about it, and not advise at the very beginning?
Try to find the value here:
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