Hi Charles,

Thanks for these examples (very technical, as always !).

Indeed, the final "quality" (9 subrays) is not good enough. In fact all the settings below 12 subrays and a 75% quality threshold are, in my opinion, "preview" quality.

But I don't agree about the fact that "VUE can produce high-quality results".
Look carefuly at the best quality / 25 subrays per pixels image : the soft shadows are still noisy and there is still "edge pixelisation" (you can clearly notice it on the legs of the dog). Sorry but I don't call this "high-quality". In fact the results that you get with VUE's highest anti-aliasing setting are identical to the lowest settings of some other 3D softwares...

Anyway, I don't understand the preset quality settings... the "final" quality is surely not a "final" quality ! The ultra is neither "ultra".

Preset quality settings could be like this :

preview : no super-sampling / no anti-aliasing
good : 8 subrays - 50 % threshold
final : 12 subrays - 100 % threshold
broadcast : 18 subrays - 100 % threshold
ultra : 24 subrays - 100 % threshold

:) Eric