Universal Settings link

[Lupaz]

FYI:

http://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/V...V-Ray+Settings

[Morne]

That just seems like the original Universal Settings from the old docs - pre 2.0 even

I think it's just been copied and pasted into the docs for newer releases, but never actually updated. They just added the note about min shading rate for version 3

[Lupaz]

Thanks.
However, Being the only official online software documentation, lets hope someone from Chaosgroup give some time in making it up to date. That way we can take "which are the universal settings" out of the forum as a topic of conversation.

[vlado]

That just seems like the original Universal Settings from the old docs - pre 2.0 even

Yes? It still works well. There's not much to update there; the min shading rate being indeed the only addition.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morne]

OK Vlado but in another thread you mentioned you used 1, 8 for DMC as universal instead of 1, 100

[tricky]

I'd be interested to know who, these days, is using the universal approach. I don't think we've ever used it ourselves. I do like the idea of not worrying too much about settings, but if its going to take 5-10x longer to render a 4k image, its a no-go for us.

[AlexP]

Often use some sort of hybrid when rendering over the weekend and I want to get home at a reasonable time on a Friday

[Morne]

I'd be interested to know who, these days, is using the universal approach. I don't think we've ever used it ourselves. I do like the idea of not worrying too much about settings, but if its going to take 5-10x longer to render a 4k image, its a no-go for us.

I've tried it on a couple of recent 720 still images and it works great, much less worrying about setup and tweaking till you're blue. Will report back soon on some highres version of same images.

Used it recently also for couple of animations, and I do like the simplicity of the setup and I'm actually getting faster render times with this approach and that is WITH the vraycam's motionblur enabled

[tricky]

Used it recently also for couple of animations,

So you are pre-calcing the lightcache but (obviously) rendering brute force and render time? Does this result give a noise-free result?

[Morne]

So you are pre-calcing the lightcache but (obviously) rendering brute force and render time? Does this result give a noise-free result?

No precalc (it had moving objects)
BF yes
rendertimes for 720 was around 10 min a frame
there was minimal noise, but I could live with it