Ok, I know that this question must have been asked before, but I am having a hard time finding the right posts or finding an online tutorial which will help me get past this. Here goes:
I am trying to replicate my basement right now and I am struggling to get the two lights which I have in the basement to correctly light the room. It seems as though the picture is very grainy and does not get a lot of light although I have the lamp power turned way up. I have downloaded a simple light fixture from online and then placed a lamp inside of it. I have tried to use area and point lights with no real success. I have edited the "glass" material to be a mix between the glass and the transparent shaders.
I am really at my wits end as this is simply not working as my gut would tell me. Also, there seems to be a large difference between when I render the scene and when I just change the viewport mode to show rendered. I would be grateful for any help on this. Any other advice is also welcome. I am not a blender regular and just starting to get my hands dirty here.
Configuration
Setup is OSX 10.13.1. CPU rendering on Blender 2.79. Using Cycles
Blend file
Example Images
Render
Viewport Render
Note: This image was scaled to meet the max file upload requirements of 2MB
