Cycles Spectral Rendering

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@thetony20

If its the download, Blender 3.2.1 for Windows is currently 213MB, so even at 30% more it would be around 277MB. Granted that’s a bit more, but in the total scheme of the Internet now days, it really isn’t all that much

It’s the equivalent of 30% more traffic, 30% more hosting costs. (Probably not exactly, as the prices probably increase sublinearly, but still)

That’s money that then can’t go to other parts of the operation. Fewer devs, fewer artists. It could actually be quite a big deal, slowing down bug handling and feature expansion.

I really hope that’s not the case though. It’d extremely suck if that were the one thing stopping Cycles from getting spectral support.

@Hadriscus

there’s no reason to think npr won’t be possible once we get there.

I think it’d potentially allow new npr effects. But manipulating the three color channels completely independently, as probably is assumed to be possible for a lot of npr workflows, isn’t gonna work with spectral rendering.