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Working with bucket sampling

Working with bucket sampling

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Working with bucket sampling

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- The bucket sampling system in V-Ray has always added what we could call controllable adaptivity to the image sampling process. Meaning that based on a number of user specified input parameters the engine can and will make some very deliberate choices about where and how it uses the samples that have been made available to it. Indeed, it should be noted at this point that the progressive system does do the exact same thing these days though it is perhaps a bit more difficult to do so quite as predictably as with the bucket sampler. To enable this in V-Ray all we need to do is open up the render setup dialog and in the V-Ray tab and image sampler rollout make the switch from the default progressive option to the bucket sampling engine. When we hit render now we see once the light cache pre-calc is finished that we're rendering not with a series of continuous refinements, but with a bucket system that methodically…

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