Ray of light from stained glass

I have render a model with stained glass with volumetric fog activated, but the final result is not as clean as I want. How can I smooth the image???

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 11, 2012 at 8:52am

Can you zip up that skp file and post it so that I can render it here?

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 10:05am

Yes, I wiil send the project. It was made very simple in order to test the volumetric fog thru the stained glass window. I'm preparing for a cathedral design, so I need that effect for rendering. By the way, I have rendered 24 hours the same project and the result is the same (Dell vostro 220 - dual core, 4G).

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 11, 2012 at 11:09am

Did you send it?

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 11:29am

cannot upload it, I will try it again.

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Untitled.rar, 1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 11:32am

Ready!!! upload accept only zip. First time I have upload .skp

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 11, 2012 at 11:44am

I only see a .rar file called Untitled.rar, which says "Server Problem" in my download pane...

And it doesn't seem to download any thing.

Is that what you uploaded?

Not a Zip file?

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 1:00pm

try again. It is a rar file

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Untitled.rar, 1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 1:02pm

the problem still exist. Do you have e-mail adress where I can send it, cause here it is a problem with server?

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 11, 2012 at 1:02pm

I see this:

Access Denied

You don't have permission to access "http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2506653370?profile=original" on this server.

Reference #18.4006046.1347390116.faa8ebc

I know zips work. Maybe you could try that.

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 1:32pm

here is a zip

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light test.zip, 1 MB

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Permalink Reply by Rich Hart on September 11, 2012 at 4:47pm

Thanks, we got the zip file.

I'll render it with a few different setting, to see if anything helps.

Looking at the documentation:

http://www.renderplus.com/wp2/wk/Volumetric_Fog.php

I see that the samples Al posted took a long time, many passes, to render and smooth out. He also explains there that applying smoothing filters might be necessary to improve the final result. You might want to try that.

We're also re-rendering stain glass model that he originally used on the page above, to see if the Path Tracer rendering engine still produces the same result.

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Permalink Reply by Vali Popescu on September 11, 2012 at 11:08pm

Even for that simple test model after 24 hours of rendering the picture looks the same. I have to know if I need months of rendering for a biger project, or the settings that I use, are the problem. The volumetric fog capability is a great improve for Irender nxt, but maybe it came too early, speaking about average home computers power.