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This light cache things are really for me the Next point to go.The impact on quality and efficiency is so huge. Just put a direct link to the PDF :Dade wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:36 pm Importance Sampling of Many Lights With Adaptive Tree Splitting: https://sites.google.com/site/ckulla/home/many-lights
Interesting but it may be redundant once we have a light cache.
Sharlybg wrote: ↑Wed Mar 21, 2018 5:16 pm This light cache things are really for me the Next point to go.The impact on quality and efficiency is so huge. Just put a direct link to the PDF :
http://cgg.mff.cuni.cz/~jaroslav/papers ... slides.pdf
I think this to make obvious the kind of improvement they method make possible.Do they really mean they rendered this image for 4 weeks?
A bit overkill if you ask me... or maybe their reference renderer is the "truest of the true" unbiased renderers?
Isn't Vladimir Koylazov one of the founder of Chaos Group and owner of V-Ray and Corona ?Sharlybg wrote: ↑Thu Mar 29, 2018 8:26 pm Nice video rendered on GPU but with Precomputed light cache on CPU :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-t2d4M98Bc
Yes (btw. in the top right corner it says V-Ray RT).
Video @ YoutubeLeft: our staged per-tile optimized scrambling, applied to a Sobol sequence of sampling points, produces a power spectrum close to Blue Noise. Right: Rendering of a challenging scene featuring depth of field and high specularity (jewels). The sampling was done with the Sobol sequence (top) and our sampler (bottom); both use 256 samples per pixel and 3 light bounces. Note the improvement in aliasing when using our method in comparison to the original Sobol sequence.
New Features of V4
AI Light
With the introduction of AI Light in Octane, you will see a great improvement in light sampling, especially in scenes that have many lights with localised distributions. As a learning system, AI Light improves as you render more samples. When used with Adaptive Sampling, AI Light gets even better, since it will learn that other lights become more important, as some pixels are no longer sampled.
AI Scene
AI Scene in Octane brings you much faster scene loading times, and a dramatic improvement in viewport interactivity. You are able to position and modify geometry in real time, even in scenes with several millions of triangles. Vertex animation with constant topology is updated in real time in complex scenes, as you move the time slider. Using the gizmos in the viewport on massive scenes is also in real time.
AI Denoiser
The much anticipated Spectral AI Denoiser allows you to render noise-free in a fraction of the time. You will find the settings to enable it in the Camera Imager settings.
Out of core geometry
Octane now supports out of core geometry, allowing you to use a significant portion of your system memory for geometry data. Multiple GPUs are also supported with out of core geometry.
In your preferences, you will see four sliders under Out-of-core. System RAM usage limit allows you to limit how much system memory Octane will use for out of core geometry and textures. Geometry data GPU RAM usage limit allows you to specify a limit on how much GPU VRAM you want to use for geometry, and underneath, you can set the same for textures. This allows you to balance the level to which textures relative to geometry are evicted from VRAM.