Cheatsheet: How to get a Cleaner image with SP3

[Streetwise]

Bobby, how are you using PSD Manager with progressive? What does your workflow look like? Can one use BB/DR for progressive output like for adaptive output?

[glorybound]

It's not, which stinks. I posted on their forum, but I haven't heard back. I ran a progressive render last night, with a 12 hour time limits, and woke up to a saved PSD file. I thought it worked, however, the layers were blank. The elements worked just fine.

Bobby, how are you using PSD Manager with progressive? What does your workflow look like? Can one use BB/DR for progressive output like for adaptive output?

[padre.ayuso]

Can one use BB/DR for progressive output like for adaptive output?

I believe you can, I have been trying it and it seems to work. However, and please do your own tests on this, I tried it yesterday on a hefty scene and it crashed. I think, and this is what you need to check, that Progressive may run more memory than Adaptive, which would make sense, considering that you are having to clean up a whole image on each pass. I had it in DR mode and I may have reached the top of the RAM and it crashed. I did not have the time to do checks, as I wanted to go home and get some beauty sleep, so I sent it on Adaptive at the end and it rendered fine with no RAM issues and no crashing. Let me know how it goes for you.

[olly]

Can one use BB/DR for progressive output like for adaptive output?

This is one reason we don't use progressive for production renders - it can only save the image when the render is finished. The great thing about vrimgs and BB/DR is the render is saved bucket by bucket so if there is a crash, you still have what rendered to that point. It would be really neat if VRay could interrogate the vrimg (when a failed job is restarted by BB) and only render the empty buckets - that would really save some bacon!

[vlado]

This is one reason we don't use progressive for production renders - it can only save the image when the render is finished. The great thing about vrimgs and BB/DR is the render is saved bucket by bucket so if there is a crash, you still have what rendered to that point. It would be really neat if VRay could interrogate the vrimg (when a failed job is restarted by BB) and only render the empty buckets - that would really save some bacon!

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year, so it's coming, both for the progressive and for the bucket samplers.

Best regards,
Vlado

[olly]

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year, so it's coming

Great news!

[flat]

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year

superb!

[jasonhuang1115]

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year, so it's coming, both for the progressive and for the bucket samplers.

Best regards,
Vlado

Happy to learn this!

[3LP]

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year, so it's coming, both for the progressive and for the bucket samplers.

Best regards,
Vlado

ouuuuuuuuuuu

Hope it's gonna be implemented in RT GPU as production as well please

Stan

[Alex_M]

Woohoo! Can't wait for the resumable rendering. This would be sooo helpful.

[WilleViz]

We'll be doing resumable rendering at some point this year, so it's coming, both for the progressive and for the bucket samplers.

Best regards,
Vlado

Fantastic!

[timmatron]

This has been a very informative read, thank you!

[soulburn3d]

Hey Lele! This may have been mentioned elsewhere, but I noticed in your test image you have a NT of 0.0025 at one point, but the spinner doesn't allow for numbers with 4 decimal places, only 3. Did you set this with maxscript (where you can override the value)? Was this done on a beta version which had more available decimal places?

- Neil

[^Lele^]

nope, it's a UI option.
Customize->Preferences->spinner tab->precision.
Don't go nuts with the number of digits, or the 16bitness will bite you! :P

[soulburn3d]

Cool, I had never seen that before. You learn something new every day

- Neil