Stereo camera, random sample seed for each side?

[Eden_Soto1]

Was trying to create a workflow for use with Altus Studio and I have to output two frame buffers per frame and the least painful way to do that (that I've seen) is to use a stereo camera with a 0 offset left and right, but Altus Studio only works if the two frame buffers have a varied sample pattern to help it distinguish what's noise and what's not... I saw in the Arnold documentation there's an AA_seed reference for the Lock Sampling Pattern setting (which I have disabled) and saw in a Maya screenshot there's a way to randomize that seed in Maya, but I don't see a way to do it in C4DtoA... does anyone know of a way to do it in C4D?

Or if there's simply a better way to achieve what I'm after, I'd love to hear that too!

TIA

[Stephen.Blair · Accepted solution]

It would be the same way as in Maya, with the User Options. For C4DtoA, that's on the Diagnostics tab

[Eden_Soto1]

Thanks... I wound up seeing that shortly after I posted, but it seems to me there's no way to randomize the sample pattern on a C4D stereo camera? I'm getting the exact sample pattern for both the left and right cameras

[Stephen.Blair]

No, for a stereo camera setup, the same AA_seed is used for both. It's like one frame with two cameras, so all the same render settings apply for each camera.

[Eden_Soto1]

Ah, bummer... thanks for your quick answers! I'll have to resort to the Render Queue, output it twice and apply different seed for each

[gcristie]

I have the same question, I can set up a stereo camera in Maya/Arnold with zero convergence and render from the masterLayer and I get <filename>.Left and .Right .exrs and each has a different noise seed out of the box.

But when I set up a Render Layer in Render Setup they share the same AA_seed. I can get around this by writing a post render layer Mel script to randomize the AA_seed in the user options and rendering each camera as a separate layer:

setAttr -type "string" defaultArnoldRenderOptions.aiUserOptions ("AA_seed " + `ceil(rand(500))`);

That's fine with a simple test set up, but II see that getting a bit unmanagable as more Render Layers are added.

Is there a way to ensure each side of a stereo camera render can get a varying AA_seed in when launched from the Render Setup as well as the masterLayer?