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nuno1980 wrote:Pool -> no any caustics?! - but should use PMC kernel (32-maxdepth (both diffuse and specular), ~120k-sample/px, no "caustic blur", 2000 rejects, parallelism 1)

water material for pool:
-reflection 0.6
-transmission 0.99
-dispersion 0.004 (must enable dispersion due to the real life )
-index of refraction 1.32

Better and more much realism render.

Some of these settings are so insanely ridiculous that I can't tell anymore if you are a real or just use the account to troll. If you're gonna spout your nonsense, at least recommend good/usable settings


Anyway, very cool technique for the renders!

itsallgoode9 wrote:Some of these settings are so insanely ridiculous that I can't tell anymore if you are a real or just use the account to troll. If you're gonna spout your nonsense, at least recommend good/usable settings


Anyway, very cool technique for the renders!

Insanely ridiculous!??!??!?!? No!

By examples:
- less than 50k-sample/px at resolution of 1002x602 -> noises, bad caustics,...;
- less than 10-maxdepth may cause more caustics missed than real-life despite outdoor,...
- less than ~2000 rejects - caustics less visible.


I use always PMC kernel with more than 32-maxdepth, 5- to 10k-reject, parallelism 1, average 150k-sample/px, no "caustic blur" and I have rendered during 2 to 15 hours. My images rendered look amazing and realism!

nuno1980 wrote:

itsallgoode9 wrote:Some of these settings are so insanely ridiculous that I can't tell anymore if you are a real or just use the account to troll. If you're gonna spout your nonsense, at least recommend good/usable settings


Anyway, very cool technique for the renders!

Insanely ridiculous!??!??!?!? No!

By examples:
- less than 50k-sample/px at resolution of 1002x602 -> noises, bad caustics,...;
- less than 10-maxdepth may cause more caustics missed than real-life despite outdoor,...
- less than ~2000 rejects - caustics less visible.


I use always PMC kernel with more than 32-maxdepth, 5- to 10k-reject, parallelism 1, average 150k-sample/px, np "caustic blur" and I have rendered during 2 to 15 hours. My images rendered look amazing and realism!

Why don't you buy OCTANE RENDER?
We never saw your amazing and realistic renders.
And please don`t call people from this forum stupid.

mark0spasic wrote:Why don't you buy OCTANE RENDER?
We never saw your amazing and realistic renders.
And please don`t call people from this forum stupid.

I'm waiting to buy OR until the date unknown due to crisis.
I'll upload here images soon but sorry for water marks.

Beppe, amazing shots! First few renders screamed photo, photooooooooo. I still find outdoor scenes with sun hard to render with that photorealistic feeling.

I would really like to see the non fish eye versions, is it possible to show them?
ciao

These truly are great thanks for sharing the technique. The distortion very closely resembles what I get when shooting with my Sigma 8mm lens.

thanks all for the nice comments, i'll try to make a test with PMC for the pool shot, it definitively deserve some coustics

@whersmy: at this link you can see a couple of videos, a vr tour and some shots, it's from 2010 so sorry for the quality.
at this other link you can see a 2013 sun animation test.
thanks for watching
ciao beppe

Really great mate.

Well done.

its DL? the glass bricks are really great too.

cheers
resmas

resmas wrote:Really great mate.

Well done.

its DL? the glass bricks are really great too.

cheers
resmas

Ok. But... DL is bad because we see with attention the pool -> therefore, @bepeg4d should use PMC.

Hi,
i have used the easter vacations for rendering the PMC version of the pool as promised, here is the result after 19h:52':24" for 16000 sampling:

and here is the PT version with the same settings and sampling level but in 04h:23':37": and here is what happen under water in PMC: Inspired by this discussion by martincarlson, i have not cleaned the fisheye before rendering

and finally here is the clean version for for comparison: @resmas: hi my friend all the renders are in PT, with the new GI clamp option i don't use DL Diffuse anymore
ciao beppe

p.s. @admins: this discussion should be moved to the WIP section, sorry my mistake