E-Cycles 2.90 builds have been updated on Gumroad and the Blender Market (25% off).
- There are 2 new very fast profiles:
- AO: as the name says, renders with AO. It’s the fastest one and actually real time in the viewport, vidéos coming soon.
- Clay: renders like if your scene was made of clay, with lights and HDR to render with shadows. Still extremly fast, perfect for setting up the lightning and inspect modeling details.
- A lot of polishing work was done:
- SSS is working again properly with CUDA
- adaptive sampling is now much faster with OptiX
- normal nodes and IES lights are also working again in 2.90.
Known bugs in current builds: Debian 9 is not working currently. Debian 10 and all other tested distros work.
E-Cycles 2.82a is very stable and still has no known bugs since over a month!
I’m working on new experiments too like fast caustics:
Made with E-Cycles this week:
- A nice swimming pool with Susanne:
https://twitter.com/Luan3dr_blender/status/1253397300996722688
- An impressive viewport rendering session by @johannes.wilde with very complexe lightning (very small opening, lots of reflections, etc.) using the latest E-Cycles 2.90 optimizations
https://twitter.com/johannes_wilde/status/1252606063913951234
Again @Luan3dr doing awesome renders:
https://twitter.com/Luan3dr_blender/status/1250544854574280704
Someone even tried E-Cycles on an old laptop with a GT 930MX and got impressive results:
https://twitter.com/faras_gregets/status/1248320405204422661
And @EntityDesigner has made a gorgeous interior ( available on the Blender Market if you want):
https://twitter.com/Entity3D/status/1248313034394742784
I hear a lot of feedback of people telling me they were very sceptical first, then very impressed. Ridley was one of the most sceptical, yet here is his final thought:
https://twitter.com/rileybrownart/status/1252696635726901248
Some hours left to get E-Cycles with 25% off during the Blender Market sales.