oops - didnt think my tiny bug report would cause such havoc
..well - in case of the jitter setting..if I understand it correctly, this is a setting that moves around the position of samples to avoid things like banding and moire pattern interference that cannot be solved with AA or other tricks.
As the Jitter settings default value seems to be 1, I would very much like to be able to set it to higher values...
A typical case of usage would be having a very unsaturated sky (or heavily tinted in one colour) with just a slight gradient I.E having few colours I.E being prone to banding...a case where I would prefer having extreme values of jitter giving me a very noisy and diffused sky...as opposed to a sky with banding.
Makes sense?
..it could also have artistic usage...Im using the Brazil render system and sometimes I use high contrast lighting, set the renderer to a low number of samples with loads of jitter and unsaturated colours...and the image then gives the impression of a thin emulsion film stock from the 60's.
..and I agree with Javajones...I think the TG2 render engine is pretty stable for a beta. In my experience it copes very well with extreme values...so the jitter thing is probably just a bug. Guess we have to ask the code maker himself
//O.