K6 testing

[evilmaul]

hi there,

just got it installed here and work, I thought I might have a better chance to play with it here than I had it at home while beta testing
First test I just loaded a simple KS5 scene which has a simple plane with area light material and GI on.  Both scene ran for 3 min in the interactive view.  As you can see KS6 (right image) seems to struggle , in the same amount of time , to resolve the GI, not sure it would have even if I left it cooking for a lot longer.....KS5 looks much smoother after the same time.

In the second image (which isnt a comparison with KS5) I used the same scene. in the left image with just the light plane visible the render looks fine but as soon as I unhide the geometry around it (I wanted to simulate more directional light ..kind of barn doors around the the light)  there you have the white sparkles, which I thought were gone in KS5. (material of the bust is plastic and that of the obj surrounding the light source just a diffuse).
thoughts?