String for AOVS

[RobinBruneau]

Hi,

I would like to use the AOV integrator, but I didn't find in the documentation the real string names for the differents options.

In this example, depth is dd.y:depth, so I would have been nice to put the full string instead of just "depth" in the documentation.
All this to say that I would like to use other types, but I can't because I have no ideas of what subtring that I am supposed to add.

Could you tell me the real string for each types ?
And even better, could you update your documentation for other people ?

Thanks,
Robin

[njroussel]

Hi @RobinBruneau ,

I'm not quite sure I understand what you're trying to point out. The aovs field has to be filled with a list of <name>:<type> pairs, where the type is one of the values listed in your screenshot. As for the name, this is something the user can define and is not a restriction on Mitsuba's end. This name is then used in the Bitmap type and will also be used when writing to an .exr.
Back to the example in the plugin reference, the dd.y is just an abitrary choice for the purpose of the example but you, as a user, could set it to whatever you want.

In the denoising how-to-guide, we make use of an aov integrator. Hopefully this might clarify a few things too.

[RobinBruneau]

Thanks, I just didn't understand that we could choose a random name . I was looking at a name enumeration somewhere that I couldn't find.