RT - Production Rendering Mode vs ActiveShade Mode?

[particlerealities]

What is the difference in the two RT modes? Will both give the same output? The Production Mode's panel has many more options. Does ActiveShade's panel pull from the settings used in the Production Mode panels? Or are they independent? Why two different panel configurations?

Do they give different outputs? Yes, I can test this myself, and I'm trying to, but I'm still pretty new to RT and am not entirely sure of the possibilities.

[yavor.rubenov]

Hello,

ActiveShade gives you the ability to change the scene while running and you can see the results. ActiveShade also pulls some of its settings from the production mode panel - for example motion blur settings (number of geometry samples and etc..) and render elements. Some of the production options are disabled when doing ActiveShade - like calculation of light cache for the GPU.
Another difference is that in ActiveShade mode geometry that has different representation in the viewport and in the final render will use its viewport representation. Example for this are particles - by default they show only 50% of the particles in the viewports and ActiveShade.

Used as a production renderer V-Ray RT should support everything else needed for production renderer - rendering multiple frames, saving outputs, render elements and etc.. In this case V-Ray RT shows all the settings panels.

Best Regards,
Yavor

[particlerealities]

Thank you Yavor - that makes sense. I appreciate the explanation.