General

• Auto Threads

  Select this option to have appleseed automatically determine the number of rendering threads to use. Unselect it to choose manually.

• Noise Seed:

  This is used to initialize the number generator used for sampling. Changing it will cause different noise patterns in the rendered image.

• Vary Noise per Frame:

  This offsets the noise seed by the current frame number. In animations this causes the noise pattern to vary between frames, mimicking the appearance of film grain.

• Render Logging

  Selects the level of feedback from appleseed during rendering.

• Texture Cache

  Sets the size of the cache used for storing textures. Raising this will increase memory usage but may help speed up rendering.

• Experimental Features

  These features are active in appleseed, but maybe not quite ready for production. Use at your own risk.

  • Use Embree

    Use Intel’s Embree raytracing library.