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Posted by Quaxo76 at Sep 29, 2011, 2:29:52 AM
Small black square "dots" on high quality renderings
Hello,
I started using SweetHome3D a few days ago, and am having a blast designing and rendering homes with my wife.
I've encountered a rendering problem though...
Background: we're using SH3D on 2 computers, a modern desktop and an older laptop. Both are running Ubuntu Linux, and version 3.3 of SH3D.
The problem is that when rendering a photo with maximum quality, in many very "shiny" or luminous places, we get small black squares. If we render the same image on the two different computers, the small squares are in the same places. They're really small, maybe 2-3 pixels on a side, but they're really annoying. They happen mostly on/near lights, or on shiny objects where they're reflecting some bright light.
If there's a way to post pictures, I have two large, high-quality renderings that show the problem - and it happens in 99% of the renderings, so it's really annoying.
It can't be a graphic driver thing because 1) the two computers have totally different brands and families of video card; 2) I think at the highest qualities, the image is rendered by the CPU alone...

Any idea how to get rid of the buggers? :)

Thanks,
Cristian