Iray rendering quality

pfunkyfize

Hi all,

When you open up the render tab then go to the section called Progressive Rend(...). I see a slider for Rendering Quality set to 1.0 . What values do you guys use to make your renders look realistic? I imagine the farther i slide it to the right, the rendering time will go longer but the quality gets better(?) Is there a sweet spot in the way of values that you use to get realistic render quality ?

 

Thanks!

Novica

Testing Render Quality  on my Art Studio thread will show you renders with various settings.

Cathie

pfunkyfize

Novica said:

Testing Render Quality  on my Art Studio thread will show you renders with various settings.

Cathie

Thank you I'll check it out!

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pfunkyfize

Thanks Cathie!

I just checked it out - wow! not much difference between 1 and 4.5 in the way of quality. However I am working with an old computer and my '1' setting takes about 1.5 hours to render compared to your 34 minutes. You must have a super fast CPU/GPUs.

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Novica

I am the LEAST technical person on the entire forums, I assure you- so I don't have a clue what I have lol. It's an Intel(R) Core i5 CPU  M480@ 2.67GHz

8GB 64 bit. (And I had to do a Google search to find out how to get to my specs.)  It is an older laptop but zips along nicely using CPU for renders. I love Samsung (also have a Dell.)  Mine is a QX410.

Today I'm playing around testing Saturation in iray. Feel free to pop in later tonight if you want to see those tests. I only started with iray two weeks ago (5 months behind everyone else!) 

pfunkyfize

I was about to ask what 'Convergence' means but it sounds like we're both new to the Iray game! HA!

Yours sounds like an updated laptop though so that's good. You know your PC is slow when someone's laptop is faster than a desktop. Mine is 8 years old which is like 80 years old in human years. I will be dropping a serious load of cash on the top of the line alienware Area-51 pc because these render times are incredibly slow. I hope you're liking the Iray though, I liked 3Delight but then seeing what an unbiased rendering engine does I'm thinking I won't go back-

I'll check in on your saturation test later tonight!