[Bf-cycles] Why remove square samples?

[Mohamed Sakr]

I understand it is a UI part for the squared samples, here in Cycles4D we
don't have that checkbox, but by default we square samples!! (and I guess
you are doing the opposite).

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM, Thomas Dinges <blender at dingto.org> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> The 2.79 release still has the Squared Samples option. It was removed in
> master afterwards.
>
> I like the various UI simplifications that were made lately in Cycles,
> 2.8x gives us the chance to revisit several things and simplify the UI
> experience. I suggest to keep all the changes, and check what else we can
> improve during 2.8x. We can revisit at any later time, if needed.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 15.08.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Adriano Oliveira:
>
> Brecht, thank you for your feedback.
>
> I think squared samples is a better approach, as long as small units
> increments don't change as much. No matter what, I got used to having it
> checked and teach my students to do it so.
>
> I suggest we keep it in 2.79 and discuss it for 2.8 in the context of
> other UI changes.
>
> IMPORTANT: Sampling presets are squared samples and did not get revised
> after the change.
>
>
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> 2017-08-15 11:47 GMT-03:00 Brecht Van Lommel <brechtvanlommel at pandora.be>:
>
>> 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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