Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Sharlybg wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 10:26 am What is your clamping value ?
Hi Dravia! you mean this?
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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ok I needed to turn it off...its 55 minutes...and 1000px it does not make much sense...I hope I am doing wrong I really hope so hahah
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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there it is necessary to set the maximum brightness value for any pixel in the image.
try it, put 1, and it will get a little dark, but the fireflies will disappear.
then, gradually increase the value until the fireflies reappear.
well, or give me a scene, I have 15 minutes of time, I'll see.
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and no need to wait 55 minutes!
select ctrl + B the most problematic area, small, and do quick renderings only of it. Conveniently, you can switch slots in the view of ready renders
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Please make sure to read some basic luxcore tutorial it will avoid you a lot of useless headaches and save you somuch time and energy ;) :

https://youtu.be/UVattTf1a5Q
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Sharlybg wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:55 am Please make sure to read some basic luxcore tutorial it will avoid you a lot of useless headaches and save you somuch time and energy ;) :

https://youtu.be/UVattTf1a5Q
Thank you ! I do know the video. It is hard to remember where and when to go to check it. Also the explanation about the feature is not really clear. I just repeated what you did and put the clamp value on 50. It could be nice to understand why and what I am doing that.

Thank you for your invaluable resources! It would help if we had a more in depth manual.
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Dez! wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:13 am there it is necessary to set the maximum brightness value for any pixel in the image.
try it, put 1, and it will get a little dark, but the fireflies will disappear.
then, gradually increase the value until the fireflies reappear.
well, or give me a scene, I have 15 minutes of time, I'll see.
Thank you for your help! I will try and if I do not succeed I would like to send it to you.

I am now using the clamp feature as suggested by the other user and wrote 50 in the value. Following the video he did he seems to use that value for the caustics. Do I still need to use the denoiser feature you suggested in 10 (the advance feature).
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Dez! wrote: Wed Oct 07, 2020 11:13 am there it is necessary to set the maximum brightness value for any pixel in the image.
try it, put 1, and it will get a little dark, but the fireflies will disappear.
then, gradually increase the value until the fireflies reappear.
well, or give me a scene, I have 15 minutes of time, I'll see.
Using a value of 50 Max bright in clamp features...still gives me an endless render. Do you think it might be the settings in the denoiser ?
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Set the Clamp value to 1 first.
Make a test render of a small section of the image.
Then set the value to 2-4. Check again.
You need such a value when there will be no fireflies, but the scene will not lose in lighting.
Most likely, a value in the region of 5-8 will suit you.
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Yes, the lower this value, the longer it takes to render.
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Values below 20 are used for completely flawless, perfect results.
The fireflies should also disappear at 75 if the Clamp is set correctly.
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Re: Trying to get rid of fairflies, need advice.

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Indeed the clamping feature at mac brightness 5 give me a almost free fireflies...at 5500 samples...
I guess...then a render of 1000 x 1000 will take 4 hours.

ok I exaggerated driven by my frustration: It will be around 1 hr for 1000px
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