Why is everyone so obsessed with Cycles lately?

[DNorman]

@Ace_Dragon

pressing the ‘like’ button on posts I made more than 12 years ago

Better late than never

[lsscpp]

Seems I made a fool of myself

[silex (Jakub Jaszewski)]

A this point it can be asked: is OP even alive?

[Renzatic (Professor Emeritus Billy H. Wafflesmith XIV Esq.)]

He last posted in October, so I guess he’s still kicking.

[RPaladin]

@Ace_Dragon

What I find unusual is that this thread was not bumped by an ordinary user, but by Bart himself

Bart did not bump this thread. A newcomer with shady intentions bumped it and was dealt with accordingly.

@Ace_Dragon

Which reminds me, I also noticed some bizarre notifications of him pressing the ‘like’ button on posts I made more than 12 years ago, what is going on?

He was potentially reviewing flag posts.

[razin (NizarAmous)]

nonetheless it’s an interesting topic, it’s that obsession shifted to a real-timesh path tracer ?

[lsscpp]

Indeed interesting. As I now know it’s a 6 years old thread, I also can’t help noticing how high were expectations on realtime raytracing back then. Ok we’re there now, we have realtime RTGI hardware and games. And so? Is the world turning around this? I’m still making stills and videos as if nothing happened. Game-making didn’t take over the business. Yet it still sounds like realtime “it’s the future”

[DNorman]

I am sure that in the - not so near future - hardware and ray-tracing engines will be capable of creating beautiful real time images.
In 40 years time the younger people on this forum will look back at us and say “remember when they had to wait for the image! Ha ha ha"

[bartv (Bart Veldhuizen)]

It was actually bumped by a comment that was moderated, and then I saw it and thought I should move it, but I hadn’t seen it was this old

[Debuk]

@bartv

and then I saw it and thought I should move it, but I hadn’t seen it was this old

I am experiencing things like that with the content of my fridge.

[Ace_Dragon]

I guess though, we can say that the premise of this thread didn’t exactly age as gracefully as the OP would’ve hoped. Sure we have Eevee now and the coming Vulkan rewrite, but Nvidia Optix and other recent developments has actually come close to making Cycles that realtime rendering solution (which will only be more impressive when it has Path Guiding, MNEE, Multi-light sampling, and adaptive sampling all working together).

[Renzatic (Professor Emeritus Billy H. Wafflesmith XIV Esq.)]

@DNorman

In 40 years time the younger people on this forum will look back at us and say “remember when they had to wait for the image! Ha ha ha"

“They had to use their hands? That’s like a baby toy!”

[DNorman]

They will probably be able to sculpt WITH their hands.

[Helmut_S]

They’ll probably have to sculpt with their hands (again). Don’t bet on history carry on that linear …

[3dmedieval]

Replying to this years later. Mind changed. I’m all about renders now that things have sped up.

[Renzatic (Professor Emeritus Billy H. Wafflesmith XIV Esq.)]

Hey, I’m talking to you from the future right now.

You might want to stock up on toilet paper. Just sayin’.