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+    "text": "In this lesson, we will discuss the rendering panel of the Cypress Engine. This panel is located on the right side, and here are all the settings that are essential for us, and that we will manipulate when it comes to final and test renders. There are only a few important settings. The rest are settings that we will not touch at all. The most important settings, which we will start with, are the sampling settings. The values we set here will determine how our final render will look. Among other things, because these values are not the only decisive factors, but they definitely have one of the greatest impacts on the quality of our render. The sampling tab is divided into sampling viewport and sampling render. Viewport refers to what samples and how many of these samples will be displayed in our preview, in our viewport, while working on our scene. And sampling render refers to how many samples will be ultimately calculated for our final renders. This value determines how our final render will look and what its quality will be. For the viewport, setting the maximum number of samples to 32 is a universal setting. This is completely sufficient during everyday work. You will see their practical application in later stages of this course. At the bottom we have the denoise option. At this moment it is unchecked, but during our work I suggest checking it. The denoise option ensures that our image in the viewport, which will change quite often and dynamically, will be denoised immediately, allowing us to see the results of our changes almost instantly. And how our render will look more or less. We have several options to choose from here. However, I will tell you right away that the best option when it comes to Blender and its use of the graphics card. For rendering and working is to select the Optics option. Next, we will select the passes with Alberto and Normal and set the start sample to a value of 1. This value means that right from the first, from the very beginning, the denoising process will occur in our viewport. Therefore, we won't have to wait long. For the effects of this very procedure, below we have the option to choose the number of samples for our final render. This value will largely determine what the final quality of our visualization will be. As for interiors, I usually use values between 300 and 400 because they provide me with a suitable balance in relation to render time. And of course, maintaining the appropriate quality. I conducted several tests with different sample values and in a few moments I will show them what the differences are at various values and how they translate into render time. Below, similar to the samples in the viewport, we have the denoise option. We can choose this option, but generally we can select denoising for final renders from this position and create it in the compositor. If you have encountered my other courses on visualization, you probably know that I prefer the denoising option from the compositor position. However, in the latest versions of Blender, there have been some changes in this area. But more on that a bit later. I'll just say that these changes when it comes to final visualizations really surprise me and are very positive. For now, we'll leave this option turned off. Below, we have the lives option, and there's an option called light tree. I won't go into too much detail about what this option does. However, remember that the light tree should always be enabled. Otherwise, various strange artifacts may appear in the final visualizations. Another important option when it comes to the cycles engine is the light paths option. In this option, we find information to put it simply on how our light will be calculated in the final visualization. Under the drop-down menu, we have several suggestions that the program provides. We have the default option, which limits the values that were previously accepted. We have options for direct light, fast GI, full GI and limited GI. Each of these options has different values. At the end of this lesson I will show you sample results that I calculated for several different options. And you will see what the differences are between them. You will also see how these differences affect rendering times. Below are the clamping and costus options. These options generally correspond to achieving the best possible results in terms of realism in our scene. I will not discuss them in detail here. What is important is that we will adopt values here that are universal and work perfectly in 99% of cases. These values are generally determines how our hardware is utilized during the rendering process. Starting from the top, we have Threads mode, which specifies how many threads of our processor blender should use. We leave it on the AutoDetect option. Blender will adjust it accordingly and read it from our hardware configuration. Below is the Memory option. The memory option allows us to set tiling, which determines how Blender will divide our image into smaller parts during rendering smaller tiles. If we are rendering using the processor, the tile size should be quite low in terms of approximately around 16 or 32. If we are rendering using a graphics card, which I personally highly recommend because the rendering speed is incomparable. Between the graphics card and the processor, the tile size can be quite large here. The base value was set to 2048 and you can comfortably leave it at that value. You can also uncheck use tilling. Then the image will be rendered as a whole, regardless of the final resolution we choose for these renders. I will talk about resolution a bit later. This solution, which involves unchecking the use tilling option, provides a significant advantage. It allows us to immediately observe the final appearance of our image. This capability means we can halt the rendering process right away if we notice any significant errors or issues. The downside of this solution, however, is that if we are rendering images at quite a high resolution, we might run out of VRAM. In that case, it is worth considering enabling UST-Link and in some cases even reducing this value by half. Send 24. It all depends on the specific project and the specific file. I will return the value to 2048 and move on to the next setting, which is persistent data. This is a rather interesting and quite important setting, especially when rendering animations or rendering a large number of visualizations from a single file. If we have, for example, a scene we are working on and we will be creating, for instance, 15 visualizations. Persistent data can save us some time. In a nutshell, this option works roughly in such a way that at the beginning of each visualization, there is a process of loading textures into the program, setting certain parameters, etc. The render does this automatically, of course. If we choose persistent data, then always. During the first render, these processes must occur, as I mentioned a moment ago, but when performing subsequent renders, renders 2, 3, 4, etc. These processes will no longer be repeated. This allows us to save several seconds, or even tens of seconds, depending on the scene and the file we are working on. If we multiply this by, for example, 10 renders that we perform, it may turn out that we ultimately saved several or even a dozen good minutes. The downside of this option is that it uses more RAM, so if it turns out that we lack VRAM to render our scene, it's worth checking whether this option is enabled or disabled. It may turn out that unchecking this option, as it is by default, can free up some RAM and allow us to render the scene. I will enable this option. The last option we will actually set is color management. However, color management does not affect the speed of visualization or the final quality of our renders. It does not affect quality in the sense that something won't be sharper or more blurred. Color management is generally responsible for displaying colors and how our visualizations will be shown. We have several options to choose from here. Previously the Filmic option was predominant because AGX and Kronos PBR were not available. It seems it was also unavailable. Previously Filmic was used and in this place the contrast we wanted to achieve was set. Below we have the exposure option which determines whether our render will be brighter or darker and the gamma option which generally in a simplified way is responsible for the contrast in our scene. Currently the AGX option is quite popular and better than Filmic. AG. reproduces colors better and as a result our visualizations look much better. Below, just like in the case of the video, we have different contrast options to choose from. From very low to very high contrasts. We can choose grayscale, meaning our renders can be black and white. We have an option called punchy. The punchy option is one that... in a certain way. Adjust the contrast so that our renders look very good. I can't exactly explain the mechanism of how this option works, and I won't delve into it completely because I don't need to know it from a strictly technical perspective. However, the punchy option provides really good results. In my work, I always use this option, so I set A.G.X. punchy. And I don't think about it, I never go back to it again. I also recommend you use this option, and in this course we will be using this exact sequence. Colors. We will leave the exposure at a value of 0, gamma at a value of 0.8 during the course. I will show you how juggling these values affects our visualizations. The quality of our visualizations is also influenced by the resolution we choose. We set the resolution in the third icon output and here at the very top we have the format option. Below that there is resolution x and resolution y. In these fields we define the dimensions in terms of width and height that our render will have it for the x2060 which is twice half HD. Simply put, we can also define our own values here for example 5500 if we need such a render or 5000 by 5000 if we want a square render and so on. We can also avoid entering these values manually each time but instead adopt for example. Basic full HD and set in percentage terms whether we want to increase or decrease it. If we set the percentage to 50, then our render will be executed at half that value. And if we set it to 200, it will be executed with a twofold increase of these values, meaning 4k. It could be 300, it could be 500. However, remember that the larger the value, the greater the load on memory. And this may cause a bigger problem with rendering scenes. Generally, lower resolutions render more easily, while higher resolutions render with more difficulty. As for the discussion of the basic and most important values for cycles and for our visualization, that's it for this lesson. As you can see, and as I mentioned earlier, even though there are quite a few options here at first glance and they may seem intimidating. In reality, we use a few basic values that do all the work. In the next lesson, I will show you what the differences are in sample values and in values. Light path, which I talked about in this lesson. I will show you this using examples of test visualizations that I have done to",
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