Hi,
I'm currently rendering a scene with the photon tracer kernel, and I noticed a significant difference in
image quality between the film region and the render region. For example, the film region renders the
image part in 22 seconds, while the render region for the same part takes 144 seconds. The caustics in
the render region look much cleaner, but the diffuse and specular components appear the same. I suspect
that somehow the render region is casting more photons for the caustics. Additionally, when I disable
adaptive sampling, the image quality, noise, and render time remain the same for the film region.
I have never encountered this issue before.
When I switch to the path tracing kernel, this difference doesn't appear.
I'm using Octane 2023.1.1.
Cheers