Cannot get a decent render in 2016

[SharkDesign]

I've seen a few people with this issue but no answer.

They changed the rendering in 2016 and now you're forced to use ray tracing rather than the traditional rendering method.

Ray Tracing will never give me a smooth looking picture, there's always noise/grain all over the image.

I've tried putting it on high, using the render environment, leaving it on over night and nothing will produce a good image.

Am I missing a setting or something?

With rendering in 2015 I never had grain on it using traditional rendering, but had the same issue with ray tracing.

[blair]

Is the "iterations" setting set to "Satisfactory" or is it set for a number of iterations? I can't say that I'm a big fan of Ray-Trace but all my renders do seem to come out fine.

[SharkDesign]

I leave it for ages. If you look at this other post, you can see the poster rendered for over 30 minutes and there is still grain in their image.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/rendering-with-inventor-2016/m-p/5880274#M...

[Anonymous]

I haven't upgraded to 2016 yet, so I'm gonna hazard a guess. Maybe you need to increase sampling somewhere, similar to 3ds Max.

[SharkDesign]

In the view menu you have the following limited options:

And in the rendering environment we get this:

(The output tab is just the option to save the image)

Doesn't matter how high you go, it's still noisy.

[Anonymous]

Was trying to find out what was in the Image Filtering Type drop down menu and ran across this;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrlfLYJfwXQ

The end result is a video, not a single frame though. But maybe it will point you in the right direction.

[dgorsman]

30 minutes is nothing for a high-quality render with ray tracing, especially with high quality lighting.  Based on experience with other software, you'll need at least 20 passes, each pass taking around 10 minutes or so.  You'll be looking at over three hours, and if you have lots of nooks and reflective surfaces you could easily be looking at over 6 hours.

[blair]

Change the setting to "Until Satisfactory". The other two options will limit the output.