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mental ray Renderer Rollouts
Sampling Quality Rollout (mental ray Renderer)
Rendering menu > Render > Render Scene dialog > Renderer panel > Sampling
Quality rollout
Main toolbar > Render Scene > Render Scene dialog > Renderer panel >
Sampling Quality rollout
Note: The Renderer panel appears only when the mental ray renderer is the
currently active renderer.
The controls in this rollout affect how the mental ray renderer performs
sampling on page 7914 .
Procedures
To use low sampling for previews:
■ Leave the Minimum and Maximum values at their default settings of 1/4
and 4, or reduce them to 1/16 and 1/4.
TIP Do not assign Minimum and Maximum the same value.
To use high sampling for final renderings:
■ Increase the Minimum and Maximum values to 4 and 16, respectively, or
to higher values.
TIP Do not assign the same value to both Minimum and Maximum.
To view the pattern of sampling:
■ On the
Diagnostics rollout on page 6129 , choose Sampling Rate, then render
the scene.
Instead of rendering the image, mental ray draws a diagram that shows
the range of applied sampling values. White lines indicate edges in the
scene, where the mental ray renderer took the maximum number of
samples. If fractional sample limits are used (sampling down), lighter dots
indicate the higher value while darker dots indicate the lower value.
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