haha, well i was talking about unified sampling/progressive rendering. But again, what's the point in using it if you don't need to... its not really the same thing anyway.


In my opinion, mental ray is more than enough for what you are doing. In regards to the preview thing, i'm not really sure why you need it. Like lots of people on the forum, you just need to learn that if you are doing a test render, you don't need to render with ss over and over again. once its right, don't change it and turn it off. test renders shouldn't be final quality, high res, etc etc.