True.. with unified sampling, it's better/faster to let it take care of
crunching through the noise (and crunches only if necessary)
Though in my experience, helping it a little (area lights at ~2, AO at
~4) yeilded faster results, yet maybe I was missing something.
I heard Sony Imagework's version of Arnold does have a unified Sampling
equivalent.
Nice image though!
On 25/02/2013 5:10 PM, Ciaran Moloney wrote:
Looks great! You should be able to drop all of your shader samples
(including AO) right down to 1. Then push up the max samples and
quality in unified sampling. Keeping shader samples at a minimum will
allow for more efficient sampling of the scene, only where it needs to
be done.
As much as I like Arnold, I do miss having an adaptive sampling
solution. Won't make me use MR though...
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Tim Leydecker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks for the hint to unified sampling!
Nice.
Here´s a mR unified sampling version with DOF.
*Switched to Gaussian (3) for Filtering.
*1/8/1/0.032 unified sampling settings...
*mia_lens_bokeh used 4 samples, should have been 6.
*global Ambient Occlusion Rays = 64, should have lived with 48 as
before.
*mib_lens_clamp (0-1) added to get rid of some hard to filter
hotspots.
MacPro2008//2.8GHz//7cores rendering in low priority
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : rendering statistics
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : type number
per eye ray
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : eye rays 15449600
1.00
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : reflection rays 61512093
3.98
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : refraction rays 1421904
0.09
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : shadow rays 4232441256
273.95
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : environment rays 3727286053
241.25
' INFO : RC 0.10 info : probe rays 3777812169
244.52
' INFO : RC 0.4 progr: rendering finished
' INFO : RC 0.4 info : wallclock 3:22:12.48 for rendering
I like the unified sampling, it is indeed easy to use and can be a
real speedimprovement!
The same image without DOF took ca. 45 minutes...
Cheers,
tim
On 25.02.2013 09:58, Arvid Björn wrote:
It's pretty easy, and it will change everything. Dof could
even speed up your render due to the more clever sampling
scheme. I usually go with mia-bokeh, stopped using post-dof
quite a while ago. Similar thing with motion blur, it's a
different game with unified sampling.
