[Bf-cycles] Why remove square samples?

[Brecht Van Lommel]

Square samples is purely a UI side feature, so is totally up to you if you
want to keep it in Cycles4D.

All user facing changes are tracked in our release notes:
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.80/Cycles


On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Mohamed Sakr <3dsakr at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Brecht,
>
> I hope there will be a list of all changes in the UI/Blender bridge so I
> can re-apply them too.
>
> cheers,
> Mohamed Sakr
>
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Brecht Van Lommel <
> brechtvanlommel at pandora.be> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is one of the first steps in planned changes to simplify Cycles
>> sampling for 2.8, by the end the settings should look quite different and
>> there will be more readjustment needed.
>>
>> We've seen users not realize this option is enabled or not, leading to
>> too many or not enough samples by accident. I think it will be better in
>> the long run to have just a single way to specify the number of samples.
>> But if we get more feedback about this being a problem we can consider
>> restoring it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Brecht.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 4:12 AM, Adriano Oliveira <adriano.ufrb at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Fellows,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just notice that square samples option was removed and that sampling
>>> presets got messed. Very annoying, I always use square samples in Cycles
>>> for years. Just don't know how to thing otherwise.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please, reconsider.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Adriano A. Oliveira*
>>>
>>>
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