Blender Master Class

Rendering and Compositing the Jungle Temple

The Jungle Temple was a complex scene, and my Render settings had a much greater impact on render times for this project. I set the render size of the image to 2880×3840; the number of Render Samples in the Sampling settings to 5000; and Clamp to 3.0 to try to reduce noise a bit more quickly.

Note

Although 5000 samples is a lot, I wasn’t particularly concerned about how long my render took. Primarily, this high number was necessary because there were a lot of soft shadows in the scene. For good results with fewer samples, you can try turning down the Size setting on some of the lamps in your scene at the cost of harder-edged shadows.

For bounces, I set the Max to 128 and Min to 8 to allow for probabilistic ...