need option to turn off bucket scaling (latest nightlies)

[dougWilkinson]

Hi

Can we have the option to turn off this feature?

thanks for reading

EDIT :

the reason i put this in "problems" is that its slowing down our renderings and requires more changing of the bucket size now, then the way it was before the auto-scaling feature.

[vlado]

Eh, it's not easy, is it...

Best regards,
Vlado

[kweechy]

Haha, I felt really bad too when I realized I needed a way to turn it off. In theory it's excellent, but the problem you run into is on print images that are 8000 x 8000 I still never really end up going with buckets bigger than 64 x 64, so when doing 10% res test regions, the buckets end up dropping to 1 x 1 sometimes.

Can we have the option to set a minimum bucket size perhaps in addition to a flag to disable the feature? That way we still get the scaling effect which is pretty nice, but can control it so that it never gets too inefficient or tiny.

[pechart]

Same here. Nice feature when you work in similar resolutions for prev and final, but when the jumps are too big it's a little bit annoying.

[vlado]

In theory it's excellent, but the problem you run into is on print images that are 8000 x 8000 I still never really end up going with buckets bigger than 64 x 64, so when doing 10% res test regions, the buckets end up dropping to 1 x 1 sometimes.

I will fix them to 16x16 min for the next night build tomorrow (revision 20573 and later).

Best regards,
Vlado

[emil.kirichev]

This new option is now added in 20610 (under Settings->Autoscale regions).

Best,
Emil