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General => Terragen Discussion => Topic started by: archonforest on September 19, 2014, 11:54:33 AM

Title: Object render quality
Post by: archonforest on September 19, 2014, 11:54:33 AM
What settings are u guys/girls using? The ultra quality is I guess is only for close ups right?
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: TheBadger on September 19, 2014, 12:24:11 PM
Well at least for sure its only for RTO off. Close up is relative.  ;)
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: archonforest on September 19, 2014, 12:50:02 PM
 ???RTO ???
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: yossam on September 19, 2014, 01:53:54 PM
Ray trace objects.............. :)


The quality setting only works if RTO is unchecked.
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: archonforest on September 19, 2014, 02:01:03 PM
Quote from: yossam on September 19, 2014, 01:53:54 PM
Ray trace objects.............. :)


The quality setting only works if RTO is unchecked.
Thx Yossam :)
Then RTO gives better quality or the quality settings? Hmmm...hard question I guess...
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: j meyer on September 20, 2014, 10:23:02 AM
RTO on or off is of importance for the question bumps or real displacement.
As for the quality take a simple tree object and make some test renders
with different quality settings and you actually see what's going on.
Topic has been discussed pretty often so the search function is your
friend here.
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: Oshyan on September 21, 2014, 10:03:05 PM
RTO gives better quality in almost all cases and is also *faster* in almost all cases (for equivalent quality). That's why we have it enabled by default. The only real benefit to non-RTO object rendering is that you can get "real" displacement on imported objects, whereas those same objects just get bump mapping (shading changes that simulate the same 3D effect of displacement on camera-facing surfaces, including shadows, but have no actual dimension) with RTO. Even with RTO disabled displacement is not always rendered that well on imported objects due to the underlying geometry of the object.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Object render quality
Post by: archonforest on September 22, 2014, 08:45:28 AM
Thx guys for the input. Appreciate it ;)