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title: "Universal V-Ray Settings"
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This page provides information on V-Ray settings that work for most scenes.


## **Overview**

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Render quality is mainly controlled by the image sampler. There are a few different parameters - the **Min** and **Max subdivs** control how many samples are taken for each pixel, and the **Noise Threshold** controls how much noise is allowed in the image. The progressive image sampler has an extra option - the **Max render time** parameter that signals an end to rendering after a certain amount of time has passed. Each of these parameters acts as a stopping criterion for rendering, or in other words - whichever of the criteria is met first will signal V-Ray to stop rendering.

The concept of "universal" settings is to have a setup that works for almost all types of scenes with a single parameter that controls the image quality and render duration - the Noise Threshold.

The universal settings are the **default since V-Ray Next**, while with previous versions they were a recommendation.

There are cases where the default (universal) render settings may not give the desired result, in such instances the settings can be adjusted as needed. *For more information, see the **[Render Settings Explained article](https://support.chaos.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409180217361-Render-Settings-Explained-Quality-vs-Render-Time)**.*

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> **When should you raise the render settings?**
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> When rendering very thin hair, particles or fast moving objects, increase the **Min subdivs** to **2** or **3**. This slows down the render but allows for better sampling of fine detail.
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> In cases where there is still some noise in the image, you can lower the **(Noise) Threshold** to **0.005** or **0.002**, and/or increase the **Max Subdivs** value.