First class stuff! That´s a very, very nice scene.

i think what he is talking about would mean increasing the sliders but not restarting the render-progress, right?

I just set it to 12000 samples per pixel, because i wanted to see if that makes much of a difference.
It didnt change very much after 3000 though. That means i could have left it render for just 20 minutes and it would have looked almost the same.
But i never rendered anything with 12000 samples per ...

I rendered a little more than an hour but that´s just due to the fact that there´s no MLT avaiable atm which causes some more artifacts for glass material. Once radiance implemented MLT this should be even faster.

Here is an updated version in a higher resolution.
I rendered it with 12000 (!) Samples/pixel and adjusted the brightness this time.

Congratulations radiance!
I hope you enjoy your stay in liege.

I thought it might be good to post a yoda to have a character/organic rendering example.

Rendered 9min 18 seconds with 12 Max Reflection and 2048 spp

Will post another one in a few minutes

Maybe it's just my display-setting. I definitely have to do a colour-calibration.

Here is my Shisha-Scene
Rendered in 10 Minutes.
I avoided the glass Material this time due to the missing MLT.

Hah....5 mins for the second picture and it looks awesome!
The first one looks very good too, but i like the second composition more.