Hi
the workaround with the denoiser utility is not clear to me.
As far as I understand it can only denois the beauty with rendering a multilayer exr which runs thru the denoiser utility and generate an exr which is just an improved beauty pass, but won't consider any of the specular passes (where it would be by the way more important).
So I render all passes to a multilayer exr, denoise them and replace the denoised result only to beauty of the original multilayer exr?
Is that the correct workaround before compositing to get the most benefit of the denoiser utility?
Best regards
emely
noice can denoise AOVs
mtoa just needs a little help to render the right info for noice
then tell noice to also denoise those aovs
and in the script history, we can see that noice denoises those aovs
Denoising image C:/Users/test/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled.exr ------------------------ (1/1) noice 5.3.0.2 [f7602f75] - the Arnold denoiser Using 40 threads. Loading images... Loading file "C:/Users/test/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled.exr". Using feature AOV 'diffuse_albedo' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'N' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'Z' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Working with 1 frame at 1024x1024 Will denoise AOV "RGBA", using associated variance Output file will be "C:/test/maya/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled_denoised.exr" Will denoise AOV "indirect", using associated variance Output file will be "C:/test/maya/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled_denoised.exr" Will denoise AOV "specular", using associated variance Output file will be "C:/test/maya/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled_denoised.exr" Start denoising (patch radius 3, search radius 9, variance 0.5) Denoising RGBA Denoising indirect Denoising specular Finished denoising Saving image C:/test/projects/default/images/tmp/untitled_denoised.exr (1024 x 1024 x 10
The denoised exr has these channels:
C:\test\projects\default\images\tmp\untitled_denoised.exr :
1024 x 1024, 10 channel, float openexr channel list: R, G, B, A, indirect.R, indirect.G, indirect.B, specular.R, specular.G, specular.B
Thanks Stephen, the denoised output exr looks great but it is always a single exr and all the layers are gone and just the denoised rgba remains as output file, even no matter if I write something in light group or not (Maya 2018.5 / Arnold 5.3) So whats wrong?
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screeenshot-rendered-file.png the rendered multilayer exr
screenshot-denoised-output.png the denoised output exr
@Emely Breitbach
Can you post the noice log from the Maya script editor?
I get always error whatever I enter in the AOV light group, I tried your wording and many more but always the denoiser don't find anything and skip it like below
noice 5.3.0.0 [b452526e] - the Arnold denoiser Loading images... Loading file "/Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.006.exr". Using feature AOV 'diffuse_albedo' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'N' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'Z' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Working with 1 frame at 960x540 Will denoise AOV "RGBA", using associated variance Output file will be "/Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.006_denoised.exr" Could not find AOV with source indirect Could not find AOV "indirect" to denoise, skipping. Could not find AOV with source specular Could not find AOV "specular" to denoise, skipping. Start denoising (patch radius 3, search radius 9, variance 0.5) Denoising RGBA Finished denoising Saving image /Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.006_denoised.exr (960 x 540 x 4)
Hi I am posting this now the third time and it always disappears, strange ...
there is always an error message when I try to denoise a spec AOV and I tried all possible names, always with an error what do I do wrong?
noice 5.3.0.0 [b452526e] - the Arnold denoiser Loading images... Loading file "/Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.007.exr". Using feature AOV 'diffuse_albedo' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'N' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Using feature AOV 'Z' with filter 'gaussian_filter' Working with 1 frame at 960x540 Will denoise AOV "RGBA", using associated variance Output file will be "/Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.007_denoised.exr" Could not find AOV with source indirect Could not find AOV "indirect" to denoise, skipping. Could not find AOV with source specular Could not find AOV "specular" to denoise, skipping. Start denoising (patch radius 3, search radius 9, variance 0.5) Denoising RGBA Finished denoising Saving image /Volumes/SSD_2TB/PaintingWalkerArnold/Maya/AAAbuildings/South Crombies Forest/images/AAAaula_ex_V13.007_denoised.exr (960 x 540 x 4)
There indirect and specular AOVs are not in the rendered EXR
Do you have Merge AOVs enabled?
bildschirmfoto-2019-05-21-um-204941.png yes if I open the file in photoshop I see all the layers of the multilayer exr - what is wrong in my setup
I don't see "indirect" or "specular" there, and those are the names you entered in the Noice dialog.
If you want to denoise "specular_indirect", you have to put "specular_indirect" in the Light Group AOVs text box