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Luxrender
Yafaray
Mitsuba
You start to learn and test with one of them and suddenly the realism gap skyrocket like crazy. It was amazing it was the good old days.Even the 1 Day rendertime didn't look to crazy for such quality at this time. Now thing a quite different. Blender have (E)Cycles(X) and eevee integrated even AMD give a free Prorender engine and octane is free for single GPU. Blender fondation is supported by big industry names like AMD/INTEL/NVIDIA/Facebook/ EPIC game / Ubisoft .........
In the other side Other opensource project who made Blender such a good alternative for lot professional back in the days just struggle alone to survive.
Mistuba renderer : Always a laboratory not designed for production
Applesseed render : Last release is from September 2019 with extremelly small community https://appleseedhq.net/2019/09/21/appl ... eased.html
Yafaray : Even the website isn't accessible now and lastest release is almost 12 month old https://github.com/YafaRay/Core/releases/tag/v3.5.1
Yes Luxcore project situation is far better :
Luxcore is constanly moving forward (almost like a miracle ) With:
___ blender plugin
___Maya and Max Plugin
___Integrated shader and 3D library
___Powering Felixrender : https://felixrender.com/home
___ Also in Vectary software as vectary photon : https://www.vectary.com/3d-modeling-new ... ry-photon/
___Supported on Render farm like :
3Scloud https://3sfarm.com/luxcorerender/
renderstreet https://render.st/engine-luxrender/
With Luxcore it is clear that the potential is great. But imagine what it will be like to have 3 major opensource rendering project like Luxcore / Yafaray / Appleseed Joining force for the best
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1__As a Luxcore user how do see a possibility like this ?
2__ As a Developer is that make sense or please you if you receive proposal to join force with another project ?
3__ As anyone what do you think make Opensource project to not make such kind of move ?
4__ What can encourage a Dev team to accept such a move ?
Feel free to just give your opinion on this let's just have a think , it is free
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