Rich_Art, I practically always use AO contrast at 50. And at final render put Samples at 150, but during tunig set it to 50.



Aslo I set this settings to minimum, it makes render very fast... Quality stay preatty good. Some times very rary it produce some artifacts if so just increas it a bit... But it happens really very rare.



All other settings stay untached.

I use R14, in R15 something was changed and this settings does not work.

Thanks for the tips.. :-) Always nice to see how others setup their scene. I use C4D for 17 years and I'm still learning. :-)
Although I hardly have the time to fire up C4D..

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)