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Back to topic :) From my experience in Blender/Cycles and Cheetah3D on the Mac side diffuse materials with PBR shaders render slower than with simple diffuse nodes. That is because the principled shader has specular/glossy reflection at 50% by default and makes it diffuse via roughness and fresnel. ...

I think the solution I came up with (back before I got the RTX card, when I could use the same instance of Blender) was to just have 1 file dedicated to Cycles, and a copy dedicated to LuxCore. That's a great idea. My problem is that I develop everything on my Mac and then use the fast PC for rende...

If I want to switch I have to save the scene, close Blender and open the other version which is no problem. In fact there might be a problem when saving a file with the nightly build (Cycles) and then opening it with the official version (LuxCore). I was just struggling with a file causing mysterio...

Just got an idea from another thread: It is possible that I opened and saved the file with the nightly build of Blender that I need for nVidia RTX support in Cycles. There are changes in the material system there that might have messed up things. I need to remind myself not to save anything with tha...

RTX 2070 + GTX 1060 with Ryzen 2700X here. I use the official Blender 2.79b with LuxCore add-on. RTX card works well in BlendLuxCore but not in Cycles. Parrallel I have a master build of 2.79 that supports RTX cards in Cycles, but LuxCore engine is not available there. So switching between Cycles an...

Now with reassigned textures and OpenCL imagepipeline disabled apparently it works well. Nope, crashed later after 1-2 hours of rendering. I've come to think the file may be corrupted. I tested other versions of the scene and those render fine no matter what engine. Also the official Lux benchmark,...

The textures are messed up because I am constantly transferring files from Mac to PC and back again, with different texture paths on each system. I was used to reassign the textures in the image nodes, now that I used your suggestion "Find Missing Files" instead it works better. I'm render...

My old causticcube file crashes Blender with BlendLuxCore 2.1 (release/beta4/beta3) It is difficult to reproduce, blender crashes without windows notification and there's no crash.txt in the TEMP directory. But on MacOSX I found crashlogs. Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: 0x00000...

:idea: ... fractal chats ... Base mesh generated with Mandelbulber 2.16 . Export .ply & Import to Blender. Remeshed with OpenVDB Remesh and solidified. Of course, render with LuxCoreRender BiDir under single Area Lamp ~ at center of the mesh... a bit off, but pointing down. :shock: :D ... scene...

kintuX wrote: ↑Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:23 pm mandelbulbCaustics.jpg

(Another caustics freak asking:)
Awesome, how did you do that ??
Setup screenshot, maybe file, please?