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Is there anything planned for the BIDIRVMCPU renderer, such as use with Blendluxcore or improvements to the engine, or will it stay as is?

Dade wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 9:01 am

jgrover110 wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 7:55 am In this image, there are only SDS caustics! Surely this has to be a bug!

BiDir can not render SDS path at all, you need BiDir with Vertex Merging for SDS paths.

If Bidir cannot render SDS at all, then what is my image showing?

Quick 100 sample glossy plane example (Bidir CPU + Metropolis): In this image, there are only SDS caustics! Surely this has to be a bug!

I also have this problem when using HDRIs. But what is strange is that SDS caustics, which are meant to be hard for even the MLT sampler to render, clearly show in the image but no regular caustics. In layman's terms: caustics in reflections/refractions, but no caustics on directly in view diffuse s...

Is the Bidir engine planned to support GPU/OpenCL?

Pressing Ctrl-Z seems to delete all of my material nodes for all materials. This isn't normal, is it? :? No. Can you open an issue about it , describe in more detail what you did, if it is reproducible, and post an example scene that shows the problem? The issue isn't scene or context specific. If ...

Pressing Ctrl-Z seems to delete all of my material nodes for all materials. This isn't normal, is it?