Arnold Imagers plus Denoising

[Matthias Bjarnason]

Hey all,

I'm curious to know if anyone is using Arnold Imagers and one of the included Denoisers to denoise their Interactive renders in Gaffer?

I've been playing with this a bit and I have to admit its responsiveness is less than impressive (at least compared to the same kind of test in Maya).

So, I wonder if I might be doing something wrong - e.g. does it matter where in the stream the Arnold Imagers should be placed, before/after the Output node and defined AOVs etc.? Before all specified Arnold Render Options or as the very last node before the Interactive Renderer etc. etc.?

If I understand the Imagers correctly, it shouldn't really matter where they reside in the stream and no specific AOVs need to be defined either unless the intention is to batch output those for post processing (which is outside of the imagers anyway), correct?

Has anyone here played around with this in depth and figured out some neat tricks to make these behave in their best manner ...and would be willing to share their experience?

Cheers!