HDRP pathtracing sample count still capped at 16K samples

Hey, it's totally expected that our path tracer algorithm have a hard time to converge in certain scenario (what you show is one of them).

However, we've been working towards that and two options have been added in recent versions.

1. We now have sky importance sampling (2022.2) which helps a lot with skies that have a lot of contrast (like a sun embed in the cubemap for example)
2. Also, a denoiser has been recently added (2022.2) specifically to fix those complicated scenario (high emissive, subsurface scattering.. etc). The denoiser package still needs to land but it won't be long now.

Hope this helps.

 

Also, if 16k doesn't do the trick, 100k won't help a lot. You'll get just a little bit more dots

 

Yes, but it's in review to make it to the package manager, so that clicking on the fix button on the override install it right away (same as DLSS one for example). Should be done "Soon"