yesterday I try to find an easy&fast-all-for-one-setup and … I found one.
My goal was to find a workflow, that allow to render “every” scene with one setup and without subdiv settings of materials … and fast must it be. Now call me a fool … … and try it.
Befor I explain and bring confusion, here my settings (at vray for rhino).
Like I have shown here, it’s possibe to set Vray in progressiv mode per full image bucket size and “full” adaptive rendering. In combination with PQMC the results are:
Quasi full adaptive IM + progressiv final pass stoped after 13min
I’m sure, not anything is perfect - the adaptive amount could be set at 100%, the memory usage is high and the two buckets (if a dual core is used) could cause different noise levels at the buckets, but I’m sure, this problems can be solved. After Vlado has done the first step with his universal method here my second step for a fast universal method.
Cleaner now, but i still don’t think i grasped it properly: you want a way to have the image stop mid-way a qmc AA pass (and sampling in case of glossies and shadows) to have an image which is of acceptable quality.
So, should we keep the small buckets, vray could display each iteration pass of the QMC sampler?
Is that why you use N (where N is the number of active threads) buckets and would want them to “refresh” once a minute or so?
Yes, the QMC process can stoped at mid-way and you will see the shooted samples. Tested and works fine here.
If this method should work proper, we need a refresh once a minute or more or less.
I used two bucktes, because my machine is a dual-core, so both are used. Better it would be, if Vlado could code something, that no bucktes are needed and the QMC use all CPUs to sample the whole image ala PPT.
General note: I’m not sure I say it: the quasi adaptive IM can be used independent from the progressiv QMC.
progressiv … I hope the max framebuffer works like the rhino: if you cancel the rendering at the progress window, the current buckets show the sampled samples. This is like it works here allways.
