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NOTE Area lights ( Area Omni Light on page 4945 and Area Spot Light on page
4948 ) have their own sampling controls. These affect only shadows cast by the area
light. They are independent of the sampling used to render the scene as a whole.
Rendering the Sampling Rate
To help you choose a sampling filter, you can render a scene with diagnostics
enabled and Sampling Rate chosen on the Render Scene dialog > Processing
panel >
Diagnostics rollout on page 6129 . The Sampling Rate diagnostic tool
gives a schematic rendering that shows how the sampling method behaves
with your scene.
Rendering with diagnostic display of the sampling rate turned on
Sampling range: 1 to 16
The intensity of each pixel indicates the number of samples collected within
it and on its lower and left edges. The brighter the pixel, the greater the number
of samples. Overall, the View Sample rendering is normalized so the brightest
pixels have the maximum number of samples. Also, red boundaries indicate
the boundaries of sampling tasks.
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