V-Ray Profiler

This page provides information about the V-Ray Profiler tool.

 

Overview

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V-Ray Profiler helps determine what parts of the scene are taking the longest time to render, compare the performance of different material settings and figure out the best settings for your scene. It does that by tracking the time spent in sampling shaders (materials and textures) and volumes during rendering and breaking down the different types of calculations done for each shader, such as GI, Reflections, Refractions, etc. It writes a JSON formatted report that can be visualized using Google Chrome’s tracer.

The V-Ray Profiler report breaks down the tracked time into a few categories: Initialization, GI, Reflection, Refraction, and Others. These categories are only tracked if they were used by the shader. For example, a V-Ray Material with no refraction enabled will not report anything for Refraction. The same will happen if a shader with no Reflection layer is used.

For volumes, the Profiler reports the time spent calculating each volume in your scene.

 

UI Paths:

||V-Ray Shelf|| > ROP Parm > Renderer tab > Options tab > Rendering tab > V-Ray Profiler

||out Network|| > V-Ray > V-Ray Renderer > Renderer tab > Options tab > Rendering tab > V-Ray Profiler

V-Ray menu > Render Settings > Renderer tab > Options tab > Rendering tab > V-Ray Profiler

Workflow

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