How to render to window, exact same style as iray preview drawstyle in preview?

posecast

Hi. I'm trying to match the speed in a render to window as I get in the aux viewport using iray drawstyle. The quality is great for the time alotted...I just want to emulate the same quality at custom sizes. Any ideas?

L'Adair

If I understand you correctly, you want to render to a new window at the same speed the aux viewport renders. I don't know if the Iray Drawstyle limits the render samples, though it seems to me it must. But I do know the size of your render will affect the speed in the render window. An image of 500 by 500 pixels will render much faster than the same image at 2000 by 2000 pixels. Chance are your Aux Viewport is pretty small compared to your main Viewport.

And of course, the more objects in the scene, the longer the render will take, as well. You can speed things up a bit if any of the objects have 3Delight surfaces. Be sure to convert those using the Iray Uber Base shader before rendering. (Select the item(s) in the Scene tab and also in the Surfaces->Editor tab. Then double-click the Iray Uber Base icon.)