For those of you who have had issues with light noise, in the form of those dreaded splotches and blotches, I have posted a blog (bedtime story) here...
Enjoy
JF
Hi Jerry.
new to the area light?
ciao
You´re right, Jerry, I used spotlights above and under the fixture.
Jacques
If you are using a spot light you would not need to turn off visible to indirect unless some of your fixture is being hit by the beam.
If you had a point light in that light fixture instead of a spot light you would have had a problem.
I can´t remember we hat these problems at the beginning of the Luxology implementation in MS.
Here´s an image from one of the first releases of V8i.
No problem with the wall-spot.
Hi Jacques,
Adjusting materials improves render times dramatically, you could always increase the number of irradiance rays rather than mess with the materials, but your render times would be considerably longer. I find it far simpler to turn off visible to indirect for those materials that are very near a source light. I really don't have any other ideas, I guess you could turn off irradiance caching and use Monte Carlo but that would take longer to render as well.