16 samples doesn't seem good enough

Support Materials and Textures
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Yoe need to use AO to use HDRI with Blender Internal.

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One day and 5 hours!

Does it usually take that long to convert a .torrent to mp4? That’s the ETA the bit torrent is showing. I’ve never used a bit torrent before, so I wouldn’t know. The transfer rate is showing 1 kb/sec. That doesn’t sound to good. I think my computer’s doing some shady dealings…

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I’ll give a short summary of what my main instructions are via the tutorial of @ndy and Matt:

  • Use negative lights(Sphere on and let Dist control the size)
  • Use BufferSpots
  • I’ll give you a .blend of a test I made today which takes less render time and a good result!
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Here is the DOTblend file:
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(sorry for using savefile.com)