question on render settings

KeithH

Attached are my render settings.

When I render complicated scenes it ends before it is finished rendering and unsure how to change that. 

What do you recommend changing in my render settings?
What can I change to allow me to render complex scenes without it stopping before it is done?

Thank you

Mattymanx

The 3 primary options that will help make it render longer, for more samples and a cleaner image, are "Max Samples", "Max Time" and "Quality" (quality is divided into several parts).  Basically DS treats all 3 functions the same in that which ever comes first, max samples, time or quality, is where it stops.

 

My personal settings:
Max Sample: 50,000

Max Time: 90,000

Quality - On

Render Quality: 3

Rendering Convergence Ratio: 99%

 

This basically gives Ds plenty of time to work the noise out.  Most of the time, 99% convergence is reached loooong before max time or samples is reached.

fred9803

If your render finishes before it's clear of artifacts you can go into render settings, increase the render time, and then resume the render from where it stopped. No need to start all over again.

KeithH

Mattymanx said:

The 3 primary options that will help make it render longer, for more samples and a cleaner image, are "Max Samples", "Max Time" and "Quality" (quality is divided into several parts).  Basically DS treats all 3 functions the same in that which ever comes first, max samples, time or quality, is where it stops.

 

My personal settings:
Max Sample: 50,000

Max Time: 90,000

Quality - On

Render Quality: 3

Rendering Convergence Ratio: 99%

 

This basically gives Ds plenty of time to work the noise out.  Most of the time, 99% convergence is reached loooong before max time or samples is reached.

Trying this now - Will post if it works Thanks

Sevrin

You gotta be careful when loading anything, like an HDRI with render settings or certain "Ready-to-Render" set products.  Sometimes they will set your Progressive Rendering settings back to 2 hours and 5000 samples, wasting your time with a crappy render.

KeithH

Sevrin said:

You gotta be careful when loading anything, like an HDRI with render settings or certain "Ready-to-Render" set products.  Sometimes they will set your Progressive Rendering settings back to 2 hours and 5000 samples, wasting your time with a crappy render.

That is great advice - thank you

It looks like changing the settings work now just takes forever to render LOL but it is rendering

SpottedKitty

If your render still isn't looking as good as you want it despite what the convergence value says, one possibility is the scene lighting. This is one of the more difficult things to wrap your head around in the 3D business, and good (or bad) lighting can make or break a render.