I set my render to sample 800 samples.
When I look in the corner while rendering it only says 510 and has LOTS of pixelation.
I've never had this problem before.
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Oh, I am also using Cycles. – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:14
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Is it possible you could you upload a screenshot of this? – gandalf3 Dec 20 '14 at 02:19
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Is there any more information you could include? Things like: Can you replicate this consistently? What have you tried? – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:21
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Embed a screenshot by clicking the little image icon and selecting the file path. – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:22
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@BinaryGreen Edit your question and click the little image icon above the editor. – gandalf3 Dec 20 '14 at 02:22
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Alright, embedded the picture. So it said something like 'Path Tracing Tile 510/510.' – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:26
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Exactly, when you render by tiles, that is what it calls each one. Looks like it completed properly to me. Could you get a shot of while it is rendering? – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:27
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No. I don't think we need one, why? – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:29
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Everything I am seeing is telling me it is operating normally, can I see the render settings? – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:31
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I just noticed something, your Light Paths max values are HUGE! I use up to 16 at most! – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:32
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Oh, and another thing. I've rendered with this project before, same settings as these. Then I kind of rearranged all the objects. Used to be some sort of indoor garage. – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:37
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I was wondering if that might be the case. You have too much light in the scene. The global light and whatever lamps you have are way too powerful. – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:37
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Edit: Found out Strength was 200. Lowered to about 25. Still same results though. – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:39
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So what is wrong with this, then? – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:47
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Did you try editing the Light Paths values? I would drop them by a factor of 100 . .. – J Sargent Dec 20 '14 at 02:54
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I dropped the bounces, glossy from 1024 to 500. Same result. – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 02:58
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Does anyone have a solution? – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 03:28
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2!!! You have square samples enabled, so you are trying to render 640,000 samples! (640,000 = 800^2) You probably want to disable square samples in Render Settings > Sampling. – gandalf3 Dec 20 '14 at 07:33
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You appear to have a per-renderlayer sample override limit set in Properties > Render layers > Layer:
To avoid this, either set the sample override to 0 in the appropriate renderlayers, or tell blender to ignore per-renderlayer sample overrides in Properties > Render settings > Sampling:
Note that you have Square Samples enabled. This means that blender will use the number of samples you specified2. The total number of samples is displayed below:
(TBH I don't really see the point of this feature..)
Also 500 bounces are almost never needed. Higher numbers of bounces give diminishing returns, and I doubt there will be much visual difference between 6 bounces and 100 bounces in a fairly diffuse scene such as yours.
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From your view, so for all the integrator (however you spell it) settings should be somewhere between 6 and 100? Like the transparency, etc? – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 12:22
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I GOT IT! You're a natural! Thank you so much! What I think messed it up is first I made one layer with the car and a second with the land, and probably accidentally changed the settings as I moved all to one layer. Thank you! – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 12:25
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Okay, I started another project. It's not working again. I ignored layer samples, set scene to 1000, how do I fix this thing again? – BinaryGreen Dec 20 '14 at 15:54
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@BinaryGreen Huh.. Is it possible you could upload your .blend? It sounds like something weird is happening, and this would be the easiest way to find out what. – gandalf3 Dec 20 '14 at 20:31