Path Space Regularization (aka the solution to SDS paths)

[provisory]

I assume, Dade is perfectly aware of these...

[provisory]

What I find interesting is that lower values than 1-1.5 also makes caustics very weak and instead of seeing a lot of fireflies I see just hint of caustics,
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So maybe caustics are getting sharper, but also weaker and so we cannot really see them?

Lower angle for path regulation = lower chance to hit.

[Dade]

some fireflies do appear though...

Are you using GPU rendering ? I haven't yet touched OpenCL code (i.e. you get a mess if you use the GPU at the moment).

[Dade]

I know it's early to some testing but I had a while so I played around a bit...

I have the strong feeling you are using GPU rendering

[lacilaci]

some fireflies do appear though...

Are you using GPU rendering ? I haven't yet touched OpenCL code (i.e. you get a mess if you use GPU at the moment).

Ah yes... I only used opencl.. will switch to cpu.

[lacilaci]

By the way, will this work with volumes? Cause right now I won't get any caustics in water if it uses homogenous volume (clear works)

[lacilaci]

some fireflies do appear though...

Are you using GPU rendering ? I haven't yet touched OpenCL code (i.e. you get a mess if you use the GPU at the moment).

Switching to cpu didn't really change anything for me... Pretty much same results as before
It looks like caustics reach a certain brightness and all sds paths keep that brightness/power there are no brigtness or sharpness variances in the pool caustics with this everything is equalized.

no sds:

sds 1300 samples, scale 2:

scale 0.4:

[lacilaci]

Also, if you look at the pool at an angle, distant caustics don't get resolved at all
It reminds me a lot of the bidir+metro distant darkening problem... related to metropolis?

[Fox]

Also, if you look at the pool at an angle, distant caustics don't get resolved at all
It reminds me a lot of the bidir+metro distant darkening problem... related to metropolis?

angledview.png

With the pool test scene around 25m in size, i had far corner shading issue with all the materials and render modes.
Only way to get ride of it was to make bigger than 25m mesh plane (like 100m or so). I made it with invisible null material and moved to the bottom of the scene.

[lacilaci]

Also, if you look at the pool at an angle, distant caustics don't get resolved at all
It reminds me a lot of the bidir+metro distant darkening problem... related to metropolis?

angledview.png

With the pool test scene around 25m in size, i had far corner shading issue with all the materials and render modes.
Only way to get ride of it was to make bigger than 25m mesh plane (like 100m or so). I made it with invisible null material and moved to the bottom of the scene.

So you basicaly expanded the bounding box with a fake mesh as a workaround? That's not good...
This is ~42m pool and 1/3 of it is not getting caustics. Before there was ocean mesh 10km wide and this pretty much removed all caustics cause it was too big..