Texture handling questoin

[frame13]

Say I have one texture file used across a number of referenced shaders.
Since they're separate references, they will have separate file read nodes.

Is VRay able to recognize that they are all pointing to the same file and not reload that texture, or will VRay reload that same file multiple times?

Thanks

[t.petrov]

Is VRay able to recognize that they are all pointing to the same file and not reload that texture, or will VRay reload that same file multiple times?

I think there is some logic to do this. And you can check if this works correctly by looking at the log for messages about loading textures.
If there are duplicates then it doesn't work.

[vlado]

Is VRay able to recognize that they are all pointing to the same file and not reload that texture, or will VRay reload that same file multiple times?

The texture will be loaded just once, so long as the full file name is the same.

Best regards,
Vlado