Thanks for the replies. I figured out what was causing the weird lighting artifacts. Turns out that using experimental rendering engines is a bad idea.

As for the textures, I'd probably have to go back to the modelling phase and redo a lot of stuff. So, I'm probably going to let this scene stagnate for now. But, I will add more to this thread later.

Progress!


There are some weird rendering things happening where certain elements should be dark. I have no idea what is causing it, but I know it isn't really normal. I did some post production after the render (lighting is basically the same as the last one). So, I think that I'm nearing the end of the piece... hopefully.

You may see some render artifacts around the image. Ignore them, since I just wanted to quickly render out the scene. (2 minutes and 30 seconds compared to 11 minutes)

I tried to fix what ndchristie pointed out. I think it works, but it is still fairly easy to fix. The only thing in the scene that is a temporary object is the barrels, since I'm going to remodel it soon. After that, I need to add in a lamp stand, and maybe a few more models. As for adding people to the scene, I don't know if that is in the scope of this project.

A bit of a side note- all the textures are procedurally generated. So, there shouldn't be a resolution discrepancy.

Everyone was talking about the cobblestone, so I did some playing around with it.
The scene takes 11 minutes to render.

Going to the 3d cursor and rotation, if you want to rotate around an object, there's a way to do that in the preferences, or just select an object and press the period button on the numpad.