josai/blender-boosters

A program designed to find optimal settings for rendering on any specific machine. This is highly advantageous for reducing render time for animations.

blender-boosters's Issues

Thoughts:

Posted this on the thread on blenderartists. Wanted to make sure you saw it:

1. Are you testing for noise levels? Or just what renders the fastest? You could render a very fast render with tons of noise. (edit, I see you're just testing a mean pixel difference per image, which is a fairly simple test) One thing you might want to look at is doing a perceptual difference test: http://pdiff.sourceforge.net/

Especially with path traced renders you will get changing noise levels. Which might trick your comparison metric.

2. You might be able to get away with testing random frames/crop windows of frames rather than full renders.

3. Some of the settings you have there affect only render time, where some might affect final image quality as well. Might be good to separate those.