I can see bright pixels in grass!

In case the bright spots are caused by sun being reflected by the grass blades, this is a physically correct phenomenon that you can also observe in real life (examples: waves on the water reflecting sun, "sparkling" snow).


Examples

Example of bright pixels visible in grass:

glossiness = 1.0

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To decrease this effect, you can:

1. Lower glossiness value of the grass material:


Glossiness lowered from 1.0 to 0.5 in 3ds Max and Cinema 4D:
 
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After lowering material's glossiness to 0.5, sun reflections became "softer" and more realistic:

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...or...

2. Disable reflection visibility for Corona Sun in 3ds Max and Cinema 4D:

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Result of disabling sun's reflection visibility:

There are no bright pixels but the grass looks less realistic. Using this option will globally disable sun reflections for all objects.





Other solutions

In post-1.3 versions of Corona, highlight clamping in 3ds Max / highlight clamping in Cinema 4D can be used to clamp the brightest parts of the image and thus get rid of fireflies and noise.
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