If you open a pre-Maya 2014 scene that renders using the mental ray for Maya renderer, your sampling settings are changed to use Unified Sampling. To render legacy scenes with their previously-saved legacy sampling settings using the command line renderer, use the new -sampling flag. You can also set the Unified Sampling Quality using the -unifiedQuality flag.
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