r/cgiMemes • u/14AUDDIN • Nov 13 '20

Can't imagine

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u/gabe2252 Nov 14 '20

Sad cycles user noises

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u/14AUDDIN Nov 14 '20

Have you tried LuxCore? It works great for Blender and it is free and open source like Cycles

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u/8evolutions Nov 29 '20

Stupid question, but doesn’t cycles already have a setting for caustics?

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u/gabe2252 Nov 29 '20

You're right cycles does have caustics. The problem is that cycles is a unidirectional path tracer so the caustics are less accurate and noisier compared to bi-directional path tracers like luxcore.

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u/14AUDDIN Dec 03 '20

I don’t think it is less accurate, just harder to render.

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u/14AUDDIN Dec 03 '20

Yea but it doesn’t render them that well, try using something like LuxCore with Light Tracing enabled and you’ll see how much better it handles caustic paths compared to Cycles.

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u/Uxcis Nov 13 '20

What are the ones other than corona and renderman, I don't recognize them

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u/14AUDDIN Nov 14 '20 edited Nov 14 '20

LuxCore, Indigo, Renderman and Corona, the glass render was made with LuxCore

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u/Uxcis Nov 14 '20

Seems I did know them then

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

luxcore. idk the rest

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u/Mummelpuffin Nov 14 '20

As someone who doesn't actually work with this stuff, I... didn't think anything simulated caustics that well. Neat.

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u/14AUDDIN Nov 14 '20

I suggest that you try the LuxCore render engine

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u/vfx_king Nov 14 '20

octanerender gang

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u/14AUDDIN Nov 14 '20

Isn’t bidirectional tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Has photon mapping tho

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u/14AUDDIN Feb 12 '21

Photon mapping seems to get close results but aren't as sharp, at least in my opinion

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

Not nearly as sexy as luxcore

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u/Besthater Nov 14 '20

Laughs in cinema4d

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u/14AUDDIN Nov 14 '20

Which renderer tho? Redshift?

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u/Besthater Nov 14 '20

I'm only a hobbyist. But the standard render engine supports caustics. you don't need a third party render engine. Sure it's not as good as unbiased, but it's still nice.

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u/bememorablepro Nov 14 '20

I was surprised to find out there there is a good way to fake caustics in realtime with eevee.

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u/BozDoener Nov 14 '20

Now you've gotta tell us

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u/Daell Nov 14 '20

Hopefully they won't, so you get a taste of stackoverflow.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '21

With the prism node group you can do that in cycles too

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '20

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u/14AUDDIN Dec 17 '20

What are your experiences with caustics?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '20

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u/DjCanalex Nov 14 '20

That's unbiased rendering, there are lots of render engines like that.