A new movie: argus1000 goes post-apocalyptic

Dartanbeck

Cool, I'm glad you like them! I use those base systems all the time, myself. In fact, I always had a very similar (but more crude) setup that I always used as a starting point before making those - which is why I used that premise when I was asked to make something like that.

For me, I don't really 'need' my shadows all that soft - I'm not that picky. So I go into the Sun light and turn off the Soft Shadows, and then open the Artificial GI Replicator and change the minimum distance setting from the default 280' to 980', which changes the number of replicated lights from 88 to 10 or 11. Sometime I increase the brightness of the replicated light to counter that, but since I'n now using Gamma Correction = 2.2, I often don't feel the need to.

Just some tips for making that system work faster for rendering animations ;)