BlendLuxCore for B2.8 - anytime, biased comparison will be

[lacilaci]

I will open soon a dedicated thread with some result so we can discuss the topic there (without derailing this one).

[Dade]

Moved the posts about caustics to a dedicated thread: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=837

[3Drendero]

Blender 2.80 RC1 is released now:

https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-80/

https://www.blendernation.com/2019/07/1 ... is-online/

http://www.cgchannel.com/2019/07/first- ... out-today/

[provisory]

Blender 2.80 RC1 is released now...

You can follow B.Y.O.B.'s progress with the 2.8 port in this thread: http://forums.luxcorerender.org/viewtopic.php?t=9

His last two messages were really promising:

Status update on the 2.8 port:
https://blenderartists.org/t/luxcoreren ... ?u=b.y.o.b

Since a few days I'm working on a "cycles node reader" that translates Cycles nodes to LuxCore materials at export time.
No actual visible node trees are modified, and you can enable/disable the usage of the Cycles nodes for each material at any time.
I have recorded some demo videos about it:
https://youtu.be/VYNwzagnKVE
https://youtu.be/ObzwXWC4iO4
https://youtu.be/s52tluXbasc

Note that it's very early work in progress and only very few nodes (around 5 or so) are supported right now.
There's a lot of work to be done still on this topic.