From the course: SketchUp: Rendering with V-Ray 3

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The bucket sampler

The bucket sampler - SketchUp Tutorial

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The bucket sampler

- [Instructor] The adaptive or bucket sampling system in V-Ray adds 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 decides to use the sample counts that have been made available to it. To enable this system in V-Ray for SketchUp all we need do really is turn the default progressive option off and when we hit the render button, we see that once the light cache precalc is finished, we now render not with a series of continuous refinements but with a bucket system that methodically renders through the various areas of the image bringing them up to the specified quality level. The controls for this system are similar to those found on the progressive sampler only this time along with the quality slider and noise limit value we get these min and max subdiv options. Now, right out of the gate here we do need to note that we would never…

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