Figure 6.36 - Render settings

One of the biggest challenges to render a scene in Cycles is finding an

optimal sample limit that will give you a noiseless image. Usually, a

value between 500 and 1000 gives you good results, but it depends on

several factors. The difference in render times from 500 to 1000 samples

could be a few minutes or hours.

To help you using fewer samples for a faster render, we can enable the

Denoiser tool in Cycles. Go to the Sampling options and enable the

Denoiser tool. Below your Sampling settings, you can enable the

Denoiser for either the render or Viewport. The Viewport option removes

noise from a render preview (Figure 6.37).