ArnoldOptions¶

user¶

Container for user-defined plugs. Nodes should never make their own plugs here, so users are free to do as they wish.

out¶

The processed output scene.

enabled¶

The on/off state of the node. When it is off, the node outputs the input scene unchanged.

in¶

The input scene

options¶

The options to be applied - arbitrary numbers of user defined options may be added as children of this plug via the user interface, or using the CompoundDataPlug API via python.

options.bucketSize¶

Controls the size of the image buckets. The default size is 64x64 pixels. Bigger buckets will increase memory usage while smaller buckets may render slower as they need to perform redundant computations and filtering.

options.bucketScanning¶

Controls the order in which buckets are processed. A spiral pattern is the default.

options.parallelNodeInit¶

Enables Arnold’s parallel node initialization. Note that some Arnold features may not be thread-safe, in which case enabling this option can cause crashes. One such example is Cryptomatte and its use in the AlSurface shader.

options.threads¶

Specifies the number of threads Arnold is allowed to use. A value of 0 gives Arnold access to all available threads.

options.aaSamples¶

Controls the number of rays per pixel traced from the camera. The more samples, the better the quality of antialiasing, motion blur and depth of field. The actual number of rays per pixel is the square of the AA samples value - so a value of 3 means 9 rays are traced, 4 means 16 rays are traced and so on.

options.giDiffuseSamples¶

Controls the number of rays traced when computing indirect illumination (“bounce light”). The number of actual diffuse rays traced is the square of this number.

options.giSpecularSamples¶

Controls the number of rays traced when computing specular reflections. The number of actual specular rays traced is the square of this number.

options.giTransmissionSamples¶

Controls the number of rays traced when computing specular refractions. The number of actual transmitted specular rays traced is the square of this number.

options.giSSSSamples¶

Controls the number of rays traced when computing subsurface scattering. The number of actual subsurface rays traced is the square of this number.

options.giVolumeSamples¶

Controls the number of rays traced when computing indirect lighting for volumes. The number of actual rays traced is the square of this number. The volume ray depth must be increased from the default value of 0 before this setting is of use.

options.aaSeed¶

Seeds the randomness used when generating samples. By default this is set to the current frame number so that the pattern of sampling noise changes every frame. It can be locked to a particular value so that sampling noise does not change from frame to frame.

options.aaSampleClamp¶

Sets a maximum for the values of individual pixel samples. This can help reduce fireflies.

options.aaSampleClampAffectsAOVs¶

Applies the sample clamping settings to all RGB and RGBA AOVs, in addition to the beauty image.

options.indirectSampleClamp¶

Clamp fireflies resulting from indirect calculations. May cause problems with dulling highlights in reflections.

options.lowLightThreshold¶

Light paths with less energy than this will be discarded. This saves tracing shadow rays, but cuts off the light when it gets dim. Raising this improves performance, but makes the image potentially darker in some areas.

options.enableAdaptiveSampling¶

If adaptive sampling is enabled, Arnold will take a minimum of ( aaSamples * aaSamples ) samples per pixel, and will then take up to ( aaSamplesMax * aaSamplesMax ) samples per pixel, or until the remaining estimated noise gets lower than aaAdaptiveThreshold.

options.aaSamplesMax¶

The maximum sampling rate during adaptive sampling. Like aaSamples, this value is squared. So aaSamplesMax == 6 means up to 36 samples per pixel.

options.aaAdaptiveThreshold¶

How much leftover noise is acceptable when terminating adaptive sampling. Higher values accept more noise, lower values keep rendering longer to achieve smaller amounts of noise.

options.giTotalDepth¶

The maximum depth of any ray (Diffuse + Specular + Transmission + Volume).

options.giDiffuseDepth¶

Controls the number of ray bounces when computing indirect illumination (“bounce light”).

options.giSpecularDepth¶

Controls the number of ray bounces when computing specular reflections.

options.giTransmissionDepth¶

Controls the number of ray bounces when computing specular refractions.

options.giVolumeDepth¶

Controls the number of ray bounces when computing indirect lighting on volumes.

options.autoTransparencyDepth¶

The number of allowable transparent layers - after this the last object will be treated as opaque.

options.maxSubdivisions¶

A global override for the maximum polymesh.subdiv_iterations.

options.textureMaxMemoryMB¶

The maximum amount of memory to use for caching textures. Tiles are loaded on demand and cached, and when the memory limit is reached the least recently used tiles are discarded to make room for more. Measured in megabytes.

options.texturePerFileStats¶

Turns on detailed statistics output for each individual texture file used.

options.textureMaxSharpen¶

Controls the sharpness of texture lookups, providing a tradeoff between sharpness and the amount of texture data loaded. If textures appear too blurry, then the value should be increased to add sharpness.

The theoretical optimum value is to match the number of AA samples, but in practice the improvement in sharpness this brings often doesn’t justify the increased render time and memory usage.

options.ignoreTextures¶

Ignores all file textures, rendering as if they were all white.

options.ignoreShaders¶

Ignores all shaders, rendering as a simple facing ratio shader instead.

options.ignoreAtmosphere¶

Ignores all atmosphere shaders.

options.ignoreLights¶

Ignores all lights.

options.ignoreShadows¶

Skips all shadow calculations.

options.ignoreSubdivision¶

Treats all subdivision surfaces as simple polygon meshes instead.

options.ignoreDisplacement¶

Ignores all displacement shaders.

options.ignoreBump¶

Ignores all bump mapping.

options.ignoreMotionBlur¶

Ignores motion blur. Note that the turn off motion blur completely, it is more efficient to use the motion blur controls in the StandardOptions node.

options.ignoreSSS¶

Disables all subsurface scattering.

options.textureSearchPath¶

The locations used to search for texture files.

options.proceduralSearchPath¶

The locations used to search for procedural DSOs.

options.pluginSearchPath¶

The locations used to search for shaders and other plugins.

options.abortOnError¶

Aborts the render if an error is encountered.

options.errorColorBadTexture¶

The colour to display if an attempt is made to use a bad or non-existent texture.

options.errorColorBadPixel¶

The colour to display for a pixel where a NaN is encountered.

options.errorColorBadShader¶

The colour to display if a problem occurs in a shader.

options.logFileName¶

The name of a log file which Arnold will generate while rendering.

options.logMaxWarnings¶

The maximum number of warnings that will be reported.

options.logInfo¶

Whether or not information messages are included in the log output.

options.logWarnings¶

Whether or not warning messages are included in the log output.

options.logErrors¶

Whether or not error messages are included in the log output.

options.logDebug¶

Whether or not debug messages are included in the log output.

options.logAssParse¶

Whether or not ass parsing is included in the log output.

options.logPlugins¶

Whether or not plugin loading is included in the log output.

options.logProgress¶

Whether or not progress messages are included in the log output.

options.logNAN¶

Whether or not pixels with NaNs are included in the log output.

options.logTimestamp¶

Whether or not timestamp prefixes are included in the log output.

options.logStats¶

Whether or not statistics are included in the log output.

options.logBacktrace¶

Whether or not stack backtraces from crashes are included in the log output.

options.logMemory¶

Whether or not memory usage prefixes are included in the log output.

options.logColor¶

Whether or not coloured messages are included in the log output.

options.consoleInfo¶

Whether or not information messages are included in the console output.

options.consoleWarnings¶

Whether or not warning messages are included in the console output.

options.consoleErrors¶

Whether or not error messages are included in the console output.

options.consoleDebug¶

Whether or not debug messages are included in the console output.

options.consoleAssParse¶

Whether or not ass parsing is included in the console output.

options.consolePlugins¶

Whether or not plugin loading is included in the console output.

options.consoleProgress¶

Whether or not progress messages are included in the console output.

options.consoleNAN¶

Whether or not pixels with NaNs are included in the console output.

options.consoleTimestamp¶

Whether or not timestamp prefixes are included in the console output.

options.consoleStats¶

Whether or not statistics are included in the console output.

options.consoleBacktrace¶

Whether or not stack backtraces from crashes are included in the console output.

options.consoleMemory¶

Whether or not memory usage prefixes are included in the console output.

options.consoleColor¶

Whether or not coloured messages are included in the console output.

options.statisticsFileName¶

The name of a statistics file where Arnold will store structured JSON statistics.

options.abortOnLicenseFail¶

Aborts the render if a license is not available, instead of rendering with a watermark.

options.skipLicenseCheck¶

Skips the check for a license, always rendering with a watermark.