Fixed AA in latest VRay?

[tricky]

I've recently used an approach to rendering so I can very quickly get full frame test renders. Its very handy with test animation renders or quickly getting a full screen render so artists can check they have the right camera/region/lighting selected. Basically, I set the image sampler to fixed with a value of '1'. The other handy thing with this setup was that your typical adaptive settings were unchanged: you could just switch back and forth between the two setups.

Additionally, an animation we have literally just completed used fixed sampling (with a value of '5') as this proved much faster than fighting with the adaptive sampler. (Not sure if it makes any difference, but we weren't using GI with this animation and the material settings were quite simple due to render times/deadlines etc).

We have just installed the latest VRay 3.40.01 across our network and it seems that the fixed sampler is no longer available.

How do we replicate the fixed sampler settings now?

[tricky]

Ah - I have just noticed you can uncheck 'Max subdivs' so presumably this is they way to do it?

[NicoC]

Ah - I have just noticed you can uncheck 'Max subdivs' so presumably this is they way to do it?

Hello Richard,

That's exactly the conclusion I ended to

[vlado]

Ah - I have just noticed you can uncheck 'Max subdivs' so presumably this is they way to do it?

Yes. Internally this how the code has always worked anyways.

Best regards,
Vlado

[tricky]

Cheers guys.

[thablanch]

And is adaptive subdivision gone for good? Or there is now a different way to get to it

[Morne]

And is adaptive subdivision gone for good? Or there is now a different way to get to it

Its just gone from UI. Can still get to it with maxscript

[vlado]

And is adaptive subdivision gone for good? Or there is now a different way to get to it

It's in the code and you can set it from MaxScript like this:

renderers.current.imageSampler_type=2

but it's gone from the UI.

Best regards,
Vlado

[thablanch]

Perfect, thanks