I’ve started working with Yafray. I’ve read a few tutorials, but they still leave me wondering about some things.
The photons setting, does it effect global illumination coming from an HDR background? If so, how? Does it slow down the render? Does it give the image better quality? From your experience, what have you found to be the best way to use it?
The manual Yafray AA. What are the best setting to get a clean, noise-free render? How does this compliment the Yafray quality setting?
The photons setting, does it effect global illumination coming from an HDR background?
No it doesn’t. Photon mapping need a photons source with concrete parameters such as source location and emitting area. In fact photon mapping is best suited for indoor scenes where photon emitters can be better defined. Besides photons would get away in an open enviroment and they would not count for the photon map calculation.
Does it slow down the render?
Photons or HDRI?
The manual Yafray AA. What are the best setting to get a clean, noise-free render?
I use 3x5, 3x6, 4x4, 4x5 for high resolution quality scenes. The number of samples should be higher that the number of passes.