animagic (11/15/2019)
@raxel_67: a guide would be good indeed and may inspire people.
What I'd like to know is what the optimum point is to kick in the denoiser. The denoiser slows rendering of a frame down somewhat, so that is why I enable it fairly late.I guess the optimum point depends a lot on what is in your scene
here i rendered up to 60 iterations and the denoiser started at 50, it looks ok
same settings for this character, it looks good but it is wrong, in this case the denoiser is screwing up, it killed the texture of the top, here is what it actually looks like in the viewport
my guess is the denoiser still needs more information to work properly, in the case of this avatar a 1000 iterations and denoiser at 999 still yields bad results
The above image was render at full hd and was render with no more than a 100 iterations, and the denoiser started at 90 (i don't remember exactly but it is something along those numbers. So far, i guess it requieres some trial and error.
Regarding the tutorial, i will make it this weekend, it is going to be a layman tutorial for laymen. I won't go into much technical details (cause some of them i don't really understand) but it will be enough for anyone getting on the iray wagon to get started and have a decent grasp on what most features are about. I will go a little bit deeper on the animated object list, since it is an awesome feature and current documentation doesn't even mention it. I already tested that the video capture software i am using (active presenter, freeware and quite good) works while iray is rendering. So just need to structure it a little bit. But i will keep it simple so that the concepts can be easily understood.