Cycles Development Updates

[moony]

@Hadriscus

Haven’t I heard you say this exact sentence for several years with varying features ? spectral, path guiding, caustics handling… it seems like Cycles is always about to become perfect, if only it had this or that…

To be fair - these new features will represent a step change in cycles capabilities in many instances.

They are not a magic bullet by any means - but they will massively expand the range of scenarios that can be handled within a reasonable timeframe.

Look at some of the tests carried out on very early builds to see the potential that path guiding has:

Cycles_path_guiding tests

Thread of testing the cycles path guiding branch edit. Now you can load the official experimental build here Important,its CPU only for now This branch is still in development,please post no bugreport. No bugreports are accepted until the branch make it into the master. Here is the patch development https://developer.blender.org/D15286