Chiefer

By the way, unchecking Enable Environmental Light will decrease RT time. Your 6 passes is good enough for this.

Here are my typical exterior raytrace settings that You can try.

A) General

Increase number of passes to get rid of the pixelation. Try 10 passes or more.

B )Lighting

Uncheck Use CAmera View settings and use a dark grey or skyblue color.

Ambient Occlusion: min. .1 - max. 3 or 4

Direct Sunlight: 4 to 6

C) Advanced

Check only the Use Photon Mapping. Caustics and Depth of field are taking too much time to compute, prolonging render time. (You may also uncheck them altogether specially for exterior shots. Lighting Settings above may compensate enough for their absence).

D) Image properties

Contrast - 60%
 

oops.

It's very fast indeed. Glad you are using it now.

Hi Ozgur,

What grass plugin are you using? They look good. I like the 4th rendering the most.

 

I can NOT get sunlight to come in through the windows to cast sunbeams.  

 

I mean, I can never get it to work.

You do have sunbeam in your picture.

Hi M,

There is a lot of good B/B texture from Certainteed in the Manufacturers' Catalog that you can Download.

Try to use Ambient Occlusion instead of uniform Intensity and see what happens.

Can you post your raytrace settings as well?

It is best to set raytraces to no limit than to see a halfbaked image,

Kirk, I too am having this issue along the Raytrace taking too long.  I understand that to reduce the time I can save just the area that I want to Raytrace and delete everything else but doesn't that negate the point.  I am doing a simple kitchen Raytrace no Photo mapping and after 10 passes or 10 min. it still has not completed the Raytrace.

Your raytrace seems complete as shown in your image. Michael (Alaskan Son) is correct -'If you have it set as "no limit", the ray trace will never "finish" '

I am having an issue with these light spots on the floor when doing my ray traces. How can I minimize them? I am adding point lights just to brighten up the images, I've tried lowering the wattage/lumens in the light data box, but that doesn't seem to help. What suggestions can you give me to improve?

You may increase the U-V roughness of the floor material to 95 - 100% or change Material Class to "Reflective" with a reflection value of less than 5%.

Open the canopy in a new plan, delete cables using the Delete Surface tool then convert to symbol. (Tools>Symbols>Convert to symbol)