Shadows in 4.6 appear low resolution. (Never mind, I'm an idiot) ;P

ghastlycomic

I just noticed something I've never seen happen in 4.5.

My keylight shadow is coming out very low resolution. I haven't changed any of the light setting from what I used in 4.5 as my basic daylight set.

As well there seems to be some odd artifacts happening.

Do I have to change something in my render settings for 4.6?

(EDIT: Okay it turns out I accidentally switched my render quality to Open GL with shadows. %-P But on another note, I can now render OpenGL with shadows. For some reason my computer used to always crash if I tried to render Open GL with shadows in 4.5, this option now seem to be working on my machine in 4.6 which is neat)

Jaderail

Check your Render Settings, Pixel Samples and Shading rate. They might be back to default.

ghastlycomic

Jaderail said:

Check your Render Settings, Pixel Samples and Shading rate. They might be back to default.

Yeah it was a User Headgap Error. :red:

ghastlycomic

Woah! This is something!

I can not only now render with OpenGL with Shadows I can also render OpenGL GLSL!!!

In 4.5 I could only render in OpenGL Preview and 3Delight, any other render settings and my machine would crash. I had just assumed it had something to do with my machine's hardware that was causing it to crash but I guess it was a bug that is now fixed with 4.6.

Awesome!

Jaderail

Nice to hear. Enjoy your fun.

ghastlycomic

Of course the irony is I don't know when I'd ever render with OpenGL GLSL since it doesn't render that much faster than 3Delight. But you never know.

BlumBlumShub

I have nothing to add, but you just KNOW that a thread with "Never mind, I'm an idiot" is going to pique my interest!

kitakoredaz

But on another note, I can now render OpenGL with shadows. For some reason my computer used to always crash if I tried to render Open GL with shadows in 4.5

REALLY? :roll: I perfectly gave up to OpenGL render before. for me I had only one quality setting. before.

then now I tested it,, it seems work,,, but I have new question,,, why quality level 3 openGL SL become so dark?
it is the effect which expected? when I render same scene, just change quality level 1.2.4 are,
rendered pic with other setting more blight what I expected. (but not good,, as I expected ^^;)
I do not hope to stick cheap my render,, so that just tell me why,,,

ghastlycomic

kitakoredaz said:

But on another note, I can now render OpenGL with shadows. For some reason my computer used to always crash if I tried to render Open GL with shadows in 4.5

REALLY? :roll: I perfectly gave up to OpenGL render before. for me I had only one quality setting. before.

then now I tested it,, it seems work,,, but I have new question,,, why quality level 3 openGL SL become so dark?
it is the effect which expected? when I render same scene, just change quality level 1.2.4 are,
rendered pic with other setting more blight what I expected. (but not good,, as I expected ^^;)
I do not hope to stick cheap my render,, so that just tell me why,,,

I think the lesser render settings are only for making a test render before committing to a full render since the more complex your lighting the longer the render will take. I don't think anything other than the 3Delight render is intended for a final render.

I just did a quick test to see how much faster the OpenGL renders are. With minimal lighting the difference in render times is not that dramatic but you can see how the render times speed up dramatically the more lights are added.

If you were putting together a really complex scene with lots of lighting, something that might take a half hour or more to render then doing a test render with one of the OpenGL engines might be a good idea since it will show you if anything you want seen is being obscured by shadows.