Noice - what does this mean?

[askinner6CDVL]

When I try and run noice from the utilities menu I get this error.

noice 5.4.0.1 [197d4d5e] - the Arnold denoiser Using 16 threads. Loading images... Loading file */denoise/test.exr". Required metadata not found, check that the image was rendered directly with Arnold.

I'm rendering everything I think I need to N,Z,diffuse_albedo,RGBA. And have Merge AOVS on and the frame range set to single frame (I only want one image). What is the metadata it's on about here? Is there a way to find out?

cheers - Aten.

[lee_griggs]

Did you enable 'Output Denoising AOVs'? How are you saving the image?

[askinner6CDVL]

@Lee Griggs Yep, that's enabled. I was rendering in the render window and once it had finished, just doing save multi-layer exr. But the noice wasn't working on that and gave me that error.

However I just tried doing a straight batch render and running it on that output and it has worked!

So is there something about saving it directly out the render window that's saving it wrong?

[lee_griggs · Accepted solution]

Yes, you should only use batch render/render sequence.

[askinner6CDVL]

Ok that's good to know, you live and learn!

Cheers for replying. Love your work btw 🙂

[lee_griggs]

Thanks Aten!