Just want a little clarification on hidden items while rendering, please.

kirbawirba

As I understand it, selecting visibility will hide the object from view, but IRAY still does a background rendering on it, as if it were still in the scene, correct?  In order to have IRAY completely skip rendering something, it just can't be there?

 

I seem to remember seeing that here, but can't find the thread.  Can anyone clarify if I need to actually delete the things I don't want rendered in order to save memory, or is toggling visibility good enough?

 

Thank you!

crosswind

Nope... if you click to Hide the object or node or turn off Visible in Renders,  there'll be no so-called "background rendering" for both geometry and texture of the hidden items.

Wisely toggling Visibility would be good enough as you said.

PS: You may simplly compare the VRAM consumption with GPU-Z - Memory Used, by toggling Visibility.

kirbawirba

crosswind said:

Nope... if you click to Hide the object or node or turn off Visible in Renders,  there'll be no so-called "background rendering" for both geometry and texture of the hidden items.

Wisely toggling Visibility would be good enough as you said.

PS: You may simplly compare the VRAM consumption with GPU-Z - Memory Used, by toggling Visibility.

Awesome thanks for the answer! I appreciate it 

crosswind

kirbawirba said:

crosswind said:

Nope... if you click to Hide the object or node or turn off Visible in Renders,  there'll be no so-called "background rendering" for both geometry and texture of the hidden items.

Wisely toggling Visibility would be good enough as you said.

PS: You may simplly compare the VRAM consumption with GPU-Z - Memory Used, by toggling Visibility.

Awesome thanks for the answer! I appreciate it 

You're welcome!