Renderspeed Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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Renderspeed Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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Sharlybg wrote: Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:04 pm Just applied the same knowledge of adaptive on the porsche scene. small improvement but Cycles is miles ahead. like we miss something in open 3D space.

same time/CPU

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Are there improvments planed? I shade my models in an HDRI invironment, in Cycles it is super fast tweaking materials. In LuxCore it is so slow,
the time you save with the GI Chache ist the time you loose tweaking materials.
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Re: Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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For faster viewport experience here are some tips :

1__ Work in small viewport area ( split your viewport in 4 area and use one for preview)

2__ If you have only one GPU and a correct CPU use CPU for viewport

3__ This thread can help : viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2546
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Re: Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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Sharlybg wrote: Wed Sep 23, 2020 8:20 am For faster viewport experience here are some tips :

1__ Work in small viewport area ( split your viewport in 4 area and use one for preview)

2__ If you have only one GPU and a correct CPU use CPU for viewport

3__ This thread can help : viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2546
I mean the noise performance, like in your car example. Both same rendertime.

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I mean the noise performance, like in your car example. Both same rendertime.
I understand what you mean now.In my test and observation i can say that most of the cycles viewport performance come from some pretty heavy Bias introduce in the engine core Like more aggressive clamping on indirect light/uncomputed caustics path/blurred glossy threshold.
Maybe some optimisation can be add to the Luxcore viewport RT engine but only Dade can speak here.
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Re: Renderspeed Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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I have split these posts from the topic they were originally posted in because they were off-topic.
The origional topic is about responsiveness of the user interface while editing the scene during viewport render, not about rendering performance and the speed at which noise disappears.
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As shown in histograms below LuxCoreRender LCR renders images with extended dynamic. The difference is not very large, how ever it is good visible in the dark parts of the image. I guess this is an advantage for LCR when comparing versus Cycles.
Histogram_LCR shows little more dynamic
Histogram_LCR shows little more dynamic
Noise can be limited by enabling de-noising in BlendLuxCore's settings for final and preview renders. -For final renders a de-noise node can be added between in- and output nodes. There is actually not any reason complaining about noisy LuxCoreRender renders since Intel's open source de-noiser was implemented in add-on BlendLuxCore-LuxCoreRender and final in Blender.
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Re: Renderspeed Luxcore vs Cycles Final/Viewport

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However, right now the best way of recovering detail after denoising is not possible in LuxCore, so the noise speed is still a concern, the denoiser give splotches and flickering in animation if the amount of noise is high.
The viewport denoiser may halo also working with Albedos, but if you work with specular or roughness, the denoiser destroys the result and it´s impossible to work with it, so we have to work without viewport denoiser :)

The denoiser is good, but it´s not the final solution at all :)
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