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Dade wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 17, 2019 10:13 am

The 2 windows inside the single image are raw Vs denoised. You have to compare the first posted image with the second.

Ok. Now it's more clear.

Really not bad.

#1 you have to trust the algorithm, it is important to start with blurred caustics so Metropolis can find all of them and the algorithm will than sharpen them. Compare the above rendering with the initial blur: psr2.jpg See ? After a while the caustics are a LOT sharper. #2 if you render for "too l...

ah..right... in the shadows there is no caustics... ok... no... faking is not doable at all. You're right

have you never tried some fake caustics using texture on an area light? Something like a caustics projector But you also need to make sure they don't appear in shadows from the sun... If you put opacity to 0, your area light is invisibile to the other light source (if I understood what you wrote)

have you never tried some fake caustics using texture on an area light? Something like a caustics projector

something strange on it OPENCL added a solidify modifier to the first plane of the middle row blender_2019-09-11_10-28-23.png For an unknown reason the 4th plane of the middle row became visibile as well the third one row. Screw modifier blender_2019-09-11_10-33-56.png Skin blender_2019-09-11_10-34-...

Great!!!

I think this is the main issue: from the tutorial page "ACES is not complicated to work with, but you need to keep track of the color spaces of each image source, the working space of the program and the viewing pipeline." If you haven't got the right textures or color inputs , you fall into more wo...

lacilaci wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:12 am

Thanks for the kind words everyone...
Here are some not great not terrible palm tree trunks.

Have you a reference? it seems that the trunk are too "leafy"... but probably they're right...
Probably every piece of the trunk should be bigger and less curved toward outside... but just my memory...

I have exposed the setting. https://github.com/LuxCoreRender/BlendLuxCore/commit/7956892337f1a3ff64b690f3e591a81906d8f090 Is it possible to add to the 2.8 addon? I've opened an issue so you have a notice for this. Thank you in advance. (I've tried to do by myself with no luck... I can show the opti...