Feature Request:spotlight,pointlight

Mon May 13, 2013 3:42 am

They can run faster 10x or more than real mesh light.

Mon May 13, 2013 6:01 am

I'm not 100% sure but I thought these couldn't be done in a fully unbiased renderer.

Mon May 13, 2013 6:32 am

Don't you just create them using an ies file?

Mon May 13, 2013 7:29 am

octan light with ies is still a mesh light,it make rays from a area or a mesh,spotlightand pointlight make ray from a point.

Mon May 13, 2013 7:33 am

How can i render a scence with almost 80 light?

All mesh lights are toooooo heavy!

Mon May 13, 2013 11:56 pm

What if you use a single big emitter occluded with geometry?

Tue May 14, 2013 8:43 am

Daniel wrote:I'm not 100% sure but I thought these couldn't be done in a fully unbiased renderer.

Of course it can

It just won't be physically plausible anymore.

Chris

Wed May 15, 2013 4:46 am

Is not Iray an unbiased renderer, because it can use standard point lights in 3dsmax but with raytraced shadows.

Wed May 15, 2013 8:38 am

+1 here

I've said it before but IMO we need more control of our lights in Octane. All other rendering packages have controls for cone hotspot/falloff, projection, attenuation - and similar controls for area lights too. In Octane mesh lights are non lensed/focussed and largely uncontrollable. It can be done, but boy it can be hard work.

so yes, please more light options