OctaneRender™ Standalone 2.23.2

[bepeg4d]

hi,
unfortunately the emission is possible only on the normal side, in fact if you reverse the normals of an emitter, it appears black. As far as I know, your workaround is the only solution
ciao beppe

[mikinik]

in this version motion blur broken((((

[aoktar]

in this version motion blur broken((((

Absolutely not. It requires a constant vertex count for animated meshes.

[mikinik]

Absolutely not. It requires a constant vertex count for animated meshes.

really? it worked before.
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 94#p236082

[aoktar]

Absolutely not. It requires a constant vertex count for animated meshes.

really? it worked before.
http://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 94#p236082

I don't know how exported to SA. but there's two ways for vertex mblur. one is that via vertex position changes. it requires constant count. second is via vertex speed vectors. can work with non constant numbers. you can check this on a different SA.

[gabrielefx]

Hi Abstrax

I always said that ies lights were noisy.
They were noisy because I did set the opacity to 0.
If the emitter is visible the sample are spreaded very well. No matter the number of samples.
We need to hide the emitter because in reality it doesn't exist a spherical emitter.
If you design a lamp you can't add in front of it a visible spherical ies emitter.

The question is:
could you program lights and ies lights that are efficient also if they are hidden?
I want that light spread the same when is visible and/or invisible.

Also:
if you draw a large emitter, let's say 10x10 meters and one of 0,05 meters, samples of the last one will be computed after some sample passes and the number of samples will be not balanced between the two emitters.

The second question is:
could you program an algorithm that computes emitters scales and automatically balances the number of light samples?

thank you
regards

[gabrielefx]

Hi Abstrax,

regarding the first question, "not visible to camera" flag works perfectly (in 3ds Max)
We can draw flat light shapes with ies texture, leave the opacity to 1 and activate "not visible to camera".

I didn't know....very good.

regards