e-on "leaks" Hybrid GPU/CPU Interactive Path Tracer

[linvanchene]

Landscape software e-on vue was taken over by Bentley Systems in 2015.

Now e-on has "leaked" on their facebook page a

Hybrid GPU/CPU Interactive Path Tracer

for e-on vue 2016.

compare:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/news/blog/i ... ath-Tracer

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A release date has not yet been published.
It will be interesting to find out if e-on has found some solutions for challenges other GPU render engines are still dealing with

- procedural displacement?
- memory requirements of large scale scenes of detailed landscapes?
- advanced atmosphere system simulated with GPU rendering?
- spectral cloud, fog, haze models in GPU rendering?

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[fatrobotsneedlove]

vue is sooooooooooooo slooooooooooowwwww

even if this doubles the speed it'll still be hilariously slow.

great terrain program for export, but the only thing I ever actually render in it is HDRI's of the atmospheres, and as soon as you introduce any clouds it crawls to a halt.

it'd be cool to see xstream support for octane in maya for hdri pano rendering. then it'd be great

[linvanchene]

VUE 2016 is out now.

You can find more videos that explain the new features on their youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/user/eonsoftware

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There are several features of VUE 2016 that are not useable with the GPU pathtracer:

Volumetric lighting
Light gel effect
Photometric lighting (only spectral mode is supported)
Rain and snow
Procedural materials
Shadow maps
Multi-pass renders
Planets
Relighting
Clouds
G-buffer
Soft shadows
Lens flares
Anti-aliasing (Path tracer has its own max samples per pixel settings)
Spherical/planetary terrains
Dynamic EcoSystem population
Daylight portals
Two-sided materials
Ecosystem phasing
Network rendering

compare wiki for more information:

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/wiki/Vue/in ... ath_Tracer

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The import export options were also updated:



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The new Highfield Terrains feature more optimized terrain geometry and updated creation tools as well:




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