Hi Bakha, thanks for testing! Nice WIP

Still noisy, how long is was it rendered and on which GPU?
What is on the street? Geometry or envmap?

I think 100 lights may converge not very fast but we will work in this area.

How is it easy to use our material cntlStdMat? Have you understood it by yourself or have you read the documentation which we provided with 0.41?

Noticed that you spots look black for direct visibility. It's our bug. Already fixed, will upload it soon.

Can you also post a topic on the Wishlist forum with all the things we need.

Hi, guys!

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Still noisy, how long is was it rendered and on which GPU? What is on the street? Geometry or envmap?

Yeah, its a bit noisy, but i didn't aim to make perfect result, was just curious how the final shots could look like. It took ~40-45 mins on GTX 970, 1080p res, per shot.
Nearest pavement and street lamps are geometry and the distant urban view is envmap (not in a so high res btw ^_^).

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I think 100 lights may converge not very fast but we will work in this area.

To be honest, the scene converged noticeably faster with 20-30 lights and it's good direction to optimise! Anyway, 40 min at 1080p resolution for this scene is a decent result i, think)

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How is it easy to use our material cntlStdMat? Have you understood it by yourself or have you read the documentation which we provided with 0.41?

i have some expirience in several renderers, so it was quite easy. Started testing before the documentation was uploaded, but, anyway, thank U for uploading it. I'll check some moments)

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Noticed that you spots look black for direct visibility. It's our bug. Already fixed, will upload it soon.

Good! Keep on, guys!

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Can you also post a topic on the Wishlist forum with all the things we need.

Yeah. Need to remeber and list the wishes. Try to post in a few hours.

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On the 3rd image there is broken highlight. Is it our forum bad conversion, jpeg too high gamma usage?

It's my fault i guess. Experimented with some post-production stuff and uploaded not the best one



Working with new 0.41 vesrion now. Some bugs appear to be fixed! Good! Upload some pix later, then.

There is no problem loading and applying large textures. 4K, 9K - it all ok! But need to clean disk from caches.

Noticed some additional blur visible for lowres texture seen through perfect window - must fix it.

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Bakha wrote: One more clean example. Need fixing materials

Intersting work! Thank you

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Bakha wrote: Seems that with firefly_killer = 0.5 or 1.0 the noise goes away faster in this scene and Ms/sec is higher. It seems to be coool!

With firefly_killer there are different internal algorithms involved and so they have different performance characteristics resulting in better performance for some heavy lightin scenes and no more than 2x worse performance for relatively simple lighting. These algorithms (enabled by positive firefly_killer) are experimental and not switched on by default. They are a little bit clever for some situations but have some memory overhead.

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Bakha wrote: Why different render_iter_power changes Ms/sec too much?

Smaller render_iter_power simply allocates less number of samples to compute one iteration. So the the image iteration computes faster with render_iter_power = 0 but it brings less valuable information per iteration and saturates the GPU less. However, it can be usefull for small GPUs and interactive previews while modeling. For performant GPUs like 980s it is recommended to enable render_iter_power = 1