Check materials every frame

[Heerko]

I was wondering, at render time you can check or uncheck "check materials every frame"

Should I uncheck this if I have no animated materials? Or does this mean something different?

I tried searching the manual and forum for this, but couldn't find anything.

[bepeg4d]

Hi Heerko,
if you have an animated material you must leave the option active, otherwise the animation is not catched. On the other side, you can untick the option and save a bit of time every frame if your scene doen't have animated materials
Note that the hdr environment is not affected by this option.
ciao beppe

[Heerko]

Thanks Beppe

Does checking mean, loading in the materials every frame? Or does it simply check for keyframes or something like that?

[aoktar]

Thanks Beppe

Does checking mean, loading in the materials every frame? Or does it simply check for keyframes or something like that?

Plugin does standard material checking procedures when this options is enabled. Otherwise will not control check and recreate these for each further frames. It should not make any difference when you don't have animated materials.

[Heerko]

Thanks!