Render bug?

TWilson

What's with the wee bugs I've circled?

He's 600 tri with a NM, Spec, and Diffuse. Rendered with mray.

Neox

looks like shadow errors to me, have you tried to turn off the raytraced shadows?

TWilson

of course they are shadow errors yea

I switched the shadow casting to depth maps instead of raytrace and it got rid of the flecks. However it doesnt look as good.

Really I'd like to figure out why raytracing is doing that.

Neox

simple thing, your mesh is too lowpoly

your faking smoothness with normalmaps but your mesh is still as lowpoly as the unsmoothed version would look like, so how should the raytracer cast the shadows, if not based on youir lowpoly mesh

rollin

disable selfshadow

TWilson

I like your confidence Rollin... now if I could just find this option :P

In Maya?

rollin

in max i could tell you :P