Denoiser 3ds MAX Arnold EXR driver with variance AOVs enabled.

[mpowers]

Where can I find documentation on this topic? "Denoiser 3ds MAX Arnold EXR driver with variance AOVs enabled". There is nothing even remotely helpful on the denoiser page. Pictures or videos are always nice too 😉

Thnx

[Stephen.Blair]

I'm not sure what page you mean.

There's steps for using the Arnold Denoiser here:

https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/x/3ICMB

Arnold Denoiser

The workflow is as follows:

1. Go to the Denoiser tab and enable Output Denoising AOVs under Arnold Denoiser (Noice). This will automatically generate the normal, depth and albedo AOVs required for the Arnold Denoiser. You won't see these AOVs listed on the AOV tab, but they will be added to the rendered output.
2. Ensure that you are rendering out to EXR.
3. Render the scene. Alongside your beauty file (id enabled), Arnold will save an EXR version of it, also containing the AOVs needed for denoising. They are named after the beauty filename, postfixed by "_Noice_Input".
4. Go to the Denoiser tab.
5. Choose a rendered _Noice_InputEXR image in the Input and a directory for the output (denoised) files.
6. Choose whether you want to denoise a single frame or a sequence and then select 'Denoise'. This will start the denoising process based on the settings that you have chosen. The denoised images are saved in the output directory, now postfixed by "_denoised".

[mpowers]

thank you. I have no idea how I missed that over the past two days. Time for a CAT scan.