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Depth of Field - any tricks to speed up render?

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  • FifthElementFifthElement Posts: 569
    Dartanbeck said:

    For example, while everybody says "never use Ambient feature", yeah... screw that!

    I actually use it all the time, usually keep it low though, when I want to quickly show my models (animated or not) I use Ambient Occlusion only with it (no other lights or SkyLight), with a right combination of high ambient like 75(!) and indirect light on like 150 and proper occlusion radius it can look pretty good, example below.

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  • DesertDudeDesertDude Posts: 1,235

    Cool FifthElement, thanks for the info!

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Ambient on its own looks dreadful (IMHO), washing out a scene with as much light down a crevice as on an open surface.  More or less the ONLY time that you should use it is together with the Ambient Occlusion mode, when it is a faster alternative to using Full Indirect Lighting, and it can then produce some fast and good looking renders.

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,570
    edited January 2017

    I use it and AO quite a bit too

    but this is one awesome result!

    Very Cool!

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