Denoiser testers wanted

[vlado]

It will come out with the rest of the SP builds; you can get a build now if you email support@chaosgroup.com

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

ok ive got the latest nightly, i see (and have added) the denoiser render element.. and now? im using RT gpu.. i hit render and i dont see the denoiser render element in the vfb... do i need to wait for the render to finish? any other steps? does the "use gpu" button work?

[vlado]

I'm still adding the support for V-Ray RT, it will be a few more days.

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

ok.. damn.. ive got a load of renders to get out in -just not enough-time. denoiser would have shaved a few hours off my 15 hour times i guess.

[vlado]

Yeah, I'll try to be quick.

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

ahh dont stress it. ill survive

[Raph4]

interesting, I have send e-mail too.

[Donfarese]

first test with vdenoiser
its mostly a direct lit scene BF/LC noise threshold 0.01 AA 42 with noise in refracted and shaded areas
attached original rendering / mild mode/ elements mode radius=3 threshold=0.002 noiselevel=0.3

it's a real timesaver with a noise threshold that high it cleaned up very well,
increasing the noise threshold just to clean up small shaded areas would have taken double the rendering time.


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Your shots look really good, for some reason I cannot get my grass to stay looking nice like yours with the denoiser, it keeps washing it all together and loosing all the detail. I didn't see your setting in the denoiser either like "threshold" or "noiselevel". I tried setting the radius low but still a no go.

[vlado]

The "strength" parameter is way more important than the radius.

Best regards,
Vlado

[vlado]

ok ive got the latest nightly, i see (and have added) the denoiser render element.. and now? im using RT gpu.. i hit render and i dont see the denoiser render element in the vfb... do i need to wait for the render to finish? any other steps? does the "use gpu" button work?

V-Ray RT GPU should support the denoiser in the nightlies from today (May 19th).

Best regards,
Vlado

[khoross]

Your shots look really good, for some reason I cannot get my grass to stay looking nice like yours with the denoiser, it keeps washing it all together and loosing all the detail. I didn't see your setting in the denoiser either like "threshold" or "noiselevel". I tried setting the radius low but still a no go.

Hi donfarese, as Vlado said " strenght parameter" i had it set to 0.3 as i recall.
settings mentioned in my earlier post worked well even with animation & there hardly any flickering, this was with the alpha version of the denoiser, can't wait to have my hands on the final version

[super gnu]

V-Ray RT GPU should support the denoiser in the nightlies from today (May 19th).

Best regards,
Vlado

as in, if i download it now it should work? might just save my butt.

[vlado]

as in, if i download it now it should work?

Yup.

Best regards,
Vlado

[super gnu]

hmm there are two nightlies there, one 3.3005, but with a higher nightly number ( 26776) and the other, created later 3.3501 nightly number 26775.

which is the one i want?

[Ihno]

I've testet it with Phoenix Smoke.
Apart fom the smoke my scene is just a big grey groundplane with mtl wrapper and a sun without physical sky, instead i put a nerly black vray color in the GI environment
and a white color in the Environment slot to render on a white background.
I think this is something that properbly isn't denoiseable.
Using the volumetric geometry mode "kind of" works but it takes longer than a render with vollumetric mode and Col.Thresh 0.008.
And if you are using the volumetric geometry mode, the denoising of the shadows on the ground inside the smoke dosn't work well.
I think this layes propably in the nature of the denoiser, regartless its using several Passes, it is still a 2D effect and propably will never handle volumetrics in a proper way.
But maby you can cut the volumetrics from beeing denoised so we can denoise the environment and the shadows the volumetrics throw.
I allways have to turn the col.thresh below that point where I'm happy with the noise in the volumetrics to get clean shadows out of it.
That could do the trick i think.