Best Settings for V-Ray (?!

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Lesson by Ciro Sannino - Auth on January 30, 2012, filed in: V-Ray Tutorials Share with your friends! What are the best-of-the-best settings for V-Ray? Here the solution: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Set V-Ray as the current rendering engine Antialiasing: Adaptive DMC / Min=1 , Max=100 Indirect illumination: 1 Brute force + 2 Light cache. Light cache: 5000 and Interpolation samples to 5. Color mapping: Clamp output and Sub-pixel mapping must be off. DMC sampler: Adaptive amount parameter to 1.0 Noise threshold 0.005

Are not my words, these setting are on the official V-Ray online guide of Chaosgroup. They call this configuration Universal Settings : The universal settings comprise a set of settings that we have found to work very well for still images in many situations Read more We must believe But look at this. I compared Universal Settings / My Final Settings / My Test Settings / Real Time

(If you are a premium member, download here this scene) Uhmm I cant see any miracle in Universal Settings ?! Why? O_o

Of course you can see some different reflection, a small difference in brightness, but the truth is that theres no difference in terms of look and emotional impact. Thats the point: parameters dont affect Aesthetic Quality. Universal Settings represents the best setting about sharpness (6h rendering). so remember: In Render Setup you have tools to get the same image in less time (36mins), but theres no way here to affect Aesthetic quality. Now, the real question is: what affects Aesthetic Quality ? This is my list:

balance of light the right choice of color dynamic balanced composition photographers eye artistic approach detailed 3d models nice shaders nice shot

In fact all these things never change during my 4 tests For this reason Aesthetic Quality cant change, of course. Usually people make efforts to improve quality, trying and testing all Render parameters: thats wrong. Parameters and Aesthetic Quality are two different things HERE MY MAIN RULE: Learn parameters to reduce your render time; Study photograpy/color design/art to improve your Aesthetic Quality. To your success. * NOTE: The goal of this post is not giving the best settings. This post is an experiment to separate two concepts: sharpness and beauty. Usually we call both quality thats right but they are two different kind of qualities. I hope to help you understanding where to direct your efforts to improve the results.