Mode – Determines how the resolution and size of textures are handled to optimize the memory usage.
Full-size – Textures are loaded at their original size. Resize – Adjusts the size of high-resolution textures to a smaller resolution to optimize render performance. On-demand mip-mapped – – Instead of loading all the texture files at their default resolution (original or resized), V-Ray GPU loads the textures as needed and automatically creates mip-map tiles for them (regardless of their texture type). As a result, the GPU memory consumption is decreased; textures that are not visible are not loaded, and textures that are further away from the camera are loaded with lower resolution. Compressed – Textures are loaded with compression to decrease GPU memory consumption. This texture mode sacrifices some texture quality to make the texture smaller (roughly ~75% reduction in memory usage). As a result, you need much less memory for textures enabling renders of bigger scenes. Not all textures are compressed using this option and exceptions are made based on the bitmap usage:
Fancy Bullets
type
circle
If a bitmap is used for both normal/bump and color maps, as compression for normal maps is generally not good for color maps, and vice versa;
Bitmaps used for displacement;
Bitmaps used for lens effects.
Max Size – Specifies the resolution to which textures are resized when Mode is set toResize.
Format –The amount of bits per channel used to store the material texture information into memory. This does not affect textures used for lights and displacement.
8-bit – 8 bits of data used per color channel. Half – 16 bits of data used per color channel. Float – 32 bits of data used per color channel.
