[shaun]

I don't know much about network rendering and I haven't tried it myself, but from what I understand of network rendering is, that it renders on 10 machines, each going to SL10 (lets say) but with different noise outputs and then these ten renders are merged.

For those of us who have only one machine or don't have access to a network is it possible for an option of giving a "seed" number so that renderings won't have the same noise. We can then do a couple of renders to SL10 in less time and merge them manually in a photo editing program.

I could be way out here.

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[Mihai]

Every time you start a render, the noise will be randomized differently, even if you render on the same machine. So you can already do what you want, render the same scene several times, then manually merge the different mxi's.

[shaun]

Hi Mihai

I don't agree. I've tried rendering to SL 5 for each render and each render is exactly the same, even if I change the target SL.

[hyltom]

Maybe it looks the same but it isn't.