This idea was born from the Understanding DMC Sampler thread - the issue came to my attention when reading through and seeing how many users (including myself at first) were having difficulty understanding how to optimize their render quality / time. It’s clear that moving beyond the universal 1min…

Arnold is commercial now. Arnold’s sampling and noise reduction workflow couldn’t be easier and people are going to love it. Side by side Vray’s current front end needs clear, unified values. This is it. I think this would be a very welcome change to old users who are not yet mastering v-ray’s fin…

I don’t quite a agree here (and by that I mean that setting up an optimized V-Ray render is not any more slow or complicated than setting up an optimized Arnold render), but I’ve no desire to go back to that right now. We will probably revisit this again at one point, but for the moment things will…

The question is, how to improve this, without making a bigger mess of everything… I guess we could add a hidden option that turns off the sample balancing. You can test it if works ok for you and if so, we can put it in the UI. If you don’t have access to the 3.0 nightly builds, email us to vray@cha…

Like this… I hope you will find it useful… Best regards, Vlado [divide_shading_subdivs.png]

That would be in tomorrows’ builds though. After this, Vray would basically have just one knob… noise threshold… that would define ratio between speed and quality, and other one, for advanced users, that would define ration between adaptive and more brute force approach. Of course, this is just …

You keep the relative detail though. If you render a large-res print, it is very unlikely that you will still want each light cache sample to still be a few pixels in size. In general, this can be implemented in two ways: the light cache can be relative to the resolution (as it is now), or it can …

Being able to toggle the division of shading subdivs is definitely a step in the right direction. Thanks Vlado! (I still think ‘min shading rate’ belongs down in the Global DMC section… :))

Btw, I’ve always wanted to say that… but what happened to the “artists’ time is cheaper than machine time” talk? That’s exactly what the universal set up is for… Best regards, Vlado

You have access to the nightly builds, play with it and see how it goes. I still don’t think this approach makes things any simpler or easier, but I’d love to be proven wrong :slight_smile: Best regards, Vlado

Ideas on making V-Ray's sampling UI more intuitive.

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Sounds good to me.

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