Maya 2020 fundamentals - modelling the real world
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Arnold Released
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From a readers' Q and A column in TV GUIDE: "If we get involved in a nuclear war, would the electromagnetic pulses from exploding bombs damage my videotapes?"
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You can also override them per shader/light if you wish as well.
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As Mr Priest says, it just handles a hell of alot of geo, its quite staggering. To put into perspective, I recently finished a 15million poly spacecraft for a film and it 'just' rendered it with displacements and over 400 tiles of 8k textures, if it was MR, it would have just died there and then on the spot
Im going to have to try the demo...
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Importance sampling based on the matterial your using should be driving how the sampling is done but I have no idea how it works out the box.
If your matterials are very diffuse you should be increase your light samples rather than BRDF samples. Pixel samples should be relatively low, you will have huge render times if you try and resolve it simply using pixel samples.
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The light samples took me only so far, I left it at 3 since anything above that did nothing but increase render time. I've been going back and forth with the camera and diffuse samples. My searches turned up some info about interiors being a weak spot of the engine, I hope it's not true. And after some searching, I found out that the aiStandard does not have sample overrides since "since this was against their vision" of a simple straightforward renderer.
@ Jay
I did watch the video and did a good deal of googling as well, I picked up much of the same info from the user manual. What was surprising was the initial level of noise in my scene in comparison with that in the video. I think it's because my lighting conditions leaned heavily on bounce light(I didn't have this problem with the exterior test).
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Your setup shouldn't usually be a problem if the sampling method on the shader considers the solid angle ( happens to be the name of the people who make arnold) of the light. however if you have a very bright IBL and the light isn't being sampled properly you will get alot of noise.
There are useful AOVs you can use to debug scenes such and a sample count or render time aovs.
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