playing with caustics

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epilectrolytics wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm Youtube and Vimeo do their own video conversion too though it is way better.
Dropbox just hosts the video as I created it so all the flaws are my responsibility :)
It's better when discussing quality topics not to have another conversion of the file done.
(Once my dropbox is full I will have to rethink though.)
I'd suggest unlisted youtube video with a link here. (if you don't want to make those fully public)
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epilectrolytics wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm Youtube and Vimeo do their own video conversion too though it is way better.
IIRC if you use the exact right h.264 compression settings, youtube doesn't re-encode the video. Not totally sure though. I think you can look it up in the youtube FAQ.
epilectrolytics wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 12:45 pm Dropbox just hosts the video as I created it so all the flaws are my responsibility
Most people will just watch the low-quality video with the dropbox players though to save a bit of time.
If you would upload to youtube/vimeo/etc. I could link your videos in our Blenderartists thread as promo material without having to fear that people get a bad impression just because of the dropbox compression (just to mention a benefit I would see).
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I will put something together and upload it to my old dormant Youtube channel.
But that will take some time, I just checked my material and it is all different resolutions and frame rates and stuff, I'll have to rerender certain clips probably.
BTW who created the classroom scene in the master repository (need to credit)?
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epilectrolytics wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:30 pm BTW who created the classroom scene in the master repository (need to credit)?
No idea, git blame isn't helping. You could try to ask Dade about it.
Maybe it's one of the people mentioned in the credits: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCore#credits
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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:45 pm
epilectrolytics wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 4:30 pm BTW who created the classroom scene in the master repository (need to credit)?
No idea, git blame isn't helping. You could try to ask Dade about it.
Maybe it's one of the people mentioned in the credits: https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/LuxCore#credits
It was probably adapteted to old SLG by Neo, not sure. It is a quite famous scene, I don't remeber who was the original author :?:
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Probably Sladjan Ristic, credited here?
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Dade wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 6:33 pm [...]
It was probably adapteted to old SLG by Neo, not sure. It is a quite famous scene, I don't remeber who was the original author :?:
I think it was already there when I started convertion of some demo scenes. It is so long ago... :lol:
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B.Y.O.B. wrote: Thu Jul 11, 2019 1:16 pm Most people will just watch the low-quality video with the dropbox players though to save a bit of time.
If you would upload to youtube/vimeo/etc. I could link your videos in our Blenderartists thread as promo material without having to fear that people get a bad impression just because of the dropbox compression (just to mention a benefit I would see).
Just tried Youtube upload but the quality was not ok. They have a nifty vp9 encoder but no way for users to choose it.
I'll stay with dropbox but will now zip the videos before upload so that the player will not work and download becomes mandatory ;)
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Thanks for checking it.
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I spoke too soon :?

Apparently it is Safari on my Mac that prevents me from high quality playback.
VP9 conversions are there in many resolutions and in Chrome I can choose them.
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(Still h.265 looks a little better but is larger too.)
So Youtube is actually ok.
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