What is the most bat-guano-insane thing in Blender that you can't believe they haven't fixed yet?

[Strike_Digital (Andrew Stevenson)]

It’s not a fix, but for a workaround to this problem, check out this method:

Sunset forest

Yeah, that’s a problem I had for ages as well, to fix it you can use this trick: [image] Instead of using the mist pass, use the depth pass. By default, it has the full distance at every pixel, so to get a useable version, pass it through a normalize node to get it in a 0-1 range. Then, because it also has a lot of fireflies (but a lot less than the mist pass), pass it through a few despeckle nodes. I usually add one, play with the values until it removes the most noise, then add another one…

@Strike_Digital

Yeah, that’s a problem I had for ages as well, to fix it you can use this trick:

1. Instead of using the mist pass, use the depth pass. By default, it has the full distance at every pixel, so to get a useable version, pass it through a normalize node to get it in a 0-1 range.
2. Then, because it also has a lot of fireflies (but a lot less than the mist pass), pass it through a few despeckle nodes.
3. I usually add one, play with the values until it removes the most noise, then add another one and repeat until the image is clean.

Then hopefully you get a clean mist pass!

1: normalized depth, 2: with despeckling