Hello!.. It’s been a long time.
I’ll cut to the chase immediately… What do you think of these images?.. Especially about the quality/look of the lighting and GI.
How about this animation?
Now… What would you think or say if I tell you that these are the original renders?
Zero diffuce bounces. The GI is entirely node-based (SSGI) in compositing in 10-30 seconds after render. No scripting, no addons, 100% native nodes. All images and animation use almost the same, default parameters.
Now that hopefully I got the attention of some of you, I’ll allow myself to be blunt… I’m planning on releasing this node group for free, but…
I’m venezuelan, things here are tough, money is tight and I’d really appreciate donations if you find this product useful… I don’t plan to sell this, because, first of all, although I’ve been using and improving this node for over a year, it’s only me the one person that has been using it, it’s adapted to my workflow and there’s a possibility that for some of you it won’t fill your expectations. I don’t want the pressure and responsibilities of releasing and maintaining a product with the time, Internet connection, electricity and money constraints that I’m living in right now. But I believe in the usefulness of this little thing for the community, so I’ll give it a try.
Also, even when saving some money is the underlying reason for this, I don’t want to put a price on it, because first of all, it’s the first time I do this, but more important than that, I don’t want to limit or restrict the usefulness or help that this could offer to some people that maybe are in the same (or worse) situation than me…
I’m doing renders, final testing-&-fine-tuning and over the weekend I’ll prepare a nice documentation a-la “bmps project” included PDF to have a proper release between next Monday and Wednesday. Depending on the success of this experiment, I have a few other personal projects I can add to the package… Who knows, maybe this could be the start of something that helps me save enough money to move to another less-struggling country.
Anyway, I hope you are interested in this… Here’s an image of the “still in development” node group (a few parameters will change, be added or disappear).
P.S.: Yeah, I’m the creator and maintainer of the “bmps” project: [https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?151903-b.m.p.s.-1.5!](http://“bmps” project) (a -long overdue- new version is coming, BTW).