Its a very nice render. Usually to decrease noise, look for a control called Subdivs, dial that up.

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Hey VarnishedOtter thanks, I am looking at the Subdivs setting at the mo, Irradiance map subdivs currently set at 70, and the light cache subdivs at 1000, further experimentation reqd I think! Thanks mate!

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irradiance map subdivs are kind of like if each pixel reflected gi in a hemisphere the amount of rays in that hemisphere are the subdivs. it means GI will get into finer cracks. Light cache can actually be quite low. you can get away with 300 or 400.
or use quasi monte carlo. chances are the noise is coming from shadows if you are using vray lights or area shadows. increase the subdivs to say 30 for smooth shadows. or if you have any glossy reflections up the subdivs in the vray material.
If the noise is coming from the GI you can smooth out larger samples with the interp samples. it will interpolate or blur the samples together for smoother GI.

I like your render. pretty damn good for a first attempt. I wouldnt want to spill any wine on that couch.

*edit* now that I look closer it looks like you do have glossyness on the floor. thats probably what needs the subdivs cranked.

The first crit that comes to mind is the shape of the wine bottle, its not quite right unless maybe this is somesort of schnaps or congnac. also maybe try and use glossy reflections for the table and floor so its not such perfect clean reflection. just a thought.

in case you don't know. in a vray material if you make your glossyness below 1.0 you will get blurry reflections. if its at 0.0 your material is completely diffuse but still reflective. at 0.9 its very shiny with a specular highlight. something like 0.7 would give a shiny surface thats not quite shiny enough to see objects clearly in the reflection. but you need to have the subdivs at something like 25 to get good results. and its very slow.

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wow thanks Tyson for the info, I am liking your direction with the glossy reflections for the table and floor, to enhance the realism of the scene, nice thought. Thanks for taking the time to cover those areas in more depth, there is so much to take in right now as a newbie to max, sometimes it seems easy to get lost in all of those vray settings and stare blankly at the screen! I will note your levels above and experiment and try more renders with what you mention, thanks again for the input I really appreciate the advice! Experimentation, Experimentation! : )

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lol re-read what you said about the wine, crikey maybe I should change it to a nice bottle of White?! Red wine and white leather sofas, eeek! : )

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nice first render, niksta... maybe, in my opinion you must uncheck specular parameter ( in advanced effect parameter ) of the direct light and turn up subdivs... hope it help you

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hi wan, im not far from you I am currently in Thailand! How is indonesia today? I will check out the spec parameters and try a render with those and post an update of how I get on, thanks for the feedback much appreciated! thanks Niksta

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That's really good for your first render. You must be one of those annoying people who can pick things up really easily.

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lol thanks Gustave d'Pre! much appreciated, I look forward to having more examples here soon working on some more apartment style designs and a being a little more adventurous. PS_I am going to check out your site showreel, its loading now!
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hi niksta... indonesia is fine .... thx, how about thailand?
overall great first work....congratulation..

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hi wan, Thailand is great and thanks for your kind comment, I must say I am truly mega impressed with vray and max9, wow what a combination! Look forward to seeing more of your work also!

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jaja... yeah you should see my first renders... eek no you dont! hahaha great first render! and remember that practice, persistance, and patience go a long way here!

Koodos on your first render!

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sawat dee khrab! Nice render. good job so far. I would add some more detail to the floor and maybe lighten it up just a very bit.

Love the couch, really good job on the sun to!

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Nice image. The outside is under exposed imo. The sofa looks great, but you need more AO to ground some things, the lamp on the left for example.

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thanks for all the c&c, really great! I've posted a camera angle render, and tried to tidy up the floor a little, it needs more work, but I think I have looked at it for too long already! (blind to the image, do you ever feel like that too?) I will come back to it after my next project...time for some inspiration! : )

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Great to see you're working it some more. I think the environment needs more exposure. And I know what you mean by becoming blind, happens to me all the time.

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thanks VarnishedOtter, I think we will have a look at the environment backdrop and boost the exposure now to see how this evolves : )

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I said that too, first i think.

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