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Congratulations to all involved !

Hi ! The "volume priority" or "volume precedence" feature might help you :

Volume Priority

Volumes have a priority setting, which is an integer number.
In regions where volumes overlap, the volume with highest priority is chosen and replaces all other volumes.
https://wiki.luxcorerender.org ...

Thanks for taking time to make this tutorial and share your knowledge ! The examples and comparisons made it very clear.

Cycles develops at breakneck speed (Cycles-X, HIP, Metal, Caustics, ...) while LuxCore seems to be in lockdown :?


It is not fair to compare the two projects out of the blue as if they operate with the same human and financial resources. As you know Blender/Cycles gained a lot of financial ...

The lighting, shaders (lamp shade, glass, plants) and modeling quality is amazing, congratulations ! And very nice mood. I would not guess this are renders..

Amazing image !

I appreciated the pace of your live, it shows a lot of knowledge, but also trial-error, how to handle or circumvent bugs. It is a great resource to learn about methodology and project management, compared to scripted step-by-step tutorials.

Big up for showing a FLOSS workflow, and ...

Your models look great Sharly, thanks for sharing, it's inspiring ! Now we need a huge house to host them all !

AndreasResh, I find you test well done and test / illustrate well current limitations. Comparing with displacement is a good idea. So thanks for taking time for this and sharing your results.

I wonder if displacement in Lux would exhibit the samed bright border (fresnel?) seen in the Cycles renders ...

Great results Dade ! This will be very useful for realistic renders...

Do you already have an idea on how bevel radius will be controllable ? Edge weight, texture map, material based... maybe this is more an plugin implementation topic though.

The thread seems to have multiple topics : 1) bevel ...

It seems "simple/single number IOR" are only valid for dielectrics, non-dielectics materials like metals requiring "Complex/full IOR" with more complex equation and additional components/values.

Maybe the "simple" real IORs that can be found in some list, for some metals for example, don't make ...