<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>well, if you will change it at any time, please post a reply to this email, as it is used deeply inside the exporter.<br><br>cheers,<br>Mohamed Sakr</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 8:51 PM, Sergey Sharybin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sergey.vfx@gmail.com" target="_blank">sergey.vfx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>Nathan, progressive and progressive refine are the similar things. First one acts in the viewport, latter one acts for the final renders. The lower resolution feature you've mentioned is achieved by resolution divider option of the tile manager. Progressive supports this resolution divider, progressive refine does not at this moment but there is nothing really what could prevent from supporting it internally and just not use for final renders (at least not for Blender, maybe someone's funky software will support that).</div><div><br></div><div>Mohamed, it is called "progressive" in the Python API of Blender, but internally it boils down to Integrator::method. Guess this is a historical reason here. For 2.8 we can rename python property so it matches internal naming much better.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Mohamed Sakr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:3dsakr@gmail.com" target="_blank">3dsakr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">my understanding is totally different..., one of them is for the progressive rendering (updating sample by sample instead of buckets), 1 of them is for the kernel choice (PT or branched PT)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-5292054916520811433h5">On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:43 PM, Nathan Letwory <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nathan@mcneel.com" target="_blank">nathan@mcneel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-5292054916520811433h5">On 17/03/09 18:46, Sergey Sharybin wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
<span>><br>
> merge<br>
> progressive and progressive_refine. Those are same thing, just one for<br>
> the interactive render and other is for final render.<br>
<br>
</span>Are you sure they are the same? My understanding is that progressive<br>
means updating render result as they come in. Progressive refine on the<br>
other hand is the initial lower-resolution versions rendered before<br>
rendering the requested resolution.<br>
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