Forum: Carrara


Subject: .5 or 4 which is better?

brycetech opened this issue on Aug 17, 2007 · 6 posts


brycetech posted Fri, 17 August 2007 at 7:57 PM

in the render room, which provides a better render for shadow accuracy and object accuracy.

I have always assumed .5 was better..but now I'm not sure as its backwards to the antialiasing quality setting.  They should be the same order (better toward the bottom of the dropdown)...

???
thanx


dvlenk6 posted Fri, 17 August 2007 at 8:11 PM

yeah, .5 is better.

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Hoofdcommissaris posted Sat, 18 August 2007 at 6:21 AM

The number relates to size of the pixel sample that is calculated. The more detail, the more quality, that why smaller is better (sometimes :-) Bye!


Hoofdcommissaris posted Sat, 18 August 2007 at 6:21 AM

The number relates to size of the pixel sample that is calculated. The more detail, the more quality, that why smaller is better (sometimes :-) Bye!


brycetech posted Sat, 18 August 2007 at 6:43 AM

still think its backwards in order...

:)

if others go from none,good,better,best (from top to bottom)..then these should too.

thanx
BT


ShawnDriscoll posted Sat, 18 August 2007 at 11:45 PM

Your rendered object accuracy increases as your pixel size decreases.  Sometimes .5 pixels is overkill though and 1 is just as good.  It depends on how close your camera is to the object.

AA has nothing to do with this setting.

Ok, now I understand your question.  You're deciding your setting for quality based on the order of a GUI's drop-down menu rather than on the actual values shown to you in said drop-down menu.  Hmmm....  Some software would never get to beta stage with this line of questioning.

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