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Chaos Corona for 3ds Max => [Max] I need help! => Topic started by: dj_buckley on 2021-10-22, 12:17:15

Title: Renders take longer on black background?
Post by: dj_buckley on 2021-10-22, 12:17:15
Hi

I've just rendered a scene twice. 

The first one had a HDRI in the Direct Visibility Slot.  The second one was just black in the Direct Visibility slot (HDRI turned off)

The first one took 1 hour and 50 minutes

The second one took 2 hours and 30 minutes

Is this normal?  A 40 minutes increase to render on black?  There were rendered one after the other, so the only thing I can think is a RAM issue as it is a RAM intensive scene?

But I would have expected a speed increase on the black background.
Title: Re: Renders take longer on black background?
Post by: romullus on 2021-10-22, 13:22:24
I guess you're using noise level as render stop condition, right? That's happening because the difference in how Corona calculates noise for bright and dark backgrounds. It's annoying, but i learned to use pass limit when doing product rendering on solid colour background.
Title: Re: Renders take longer on black background?
Post by: dj_buckley on 2021-10-22, 17:15:01
Correct.  And thanks for highlighting.

I normally wouldn't notice as I render overnight, but I had to re-render something this morning and just happened to note the times of the previous render and the new one when I came back to it.

Good to know