[Half Life]

The most succinct description I've seen for mixed Biased/Unbiased engines is that they are "Biased engines with delusions of grandeur".

Best,
Jason.

[tom]

Hey don't fight for a bunch of rays

[numerobis]

maybe we could get something like APCS... an Architectural Pool Caustics Solution... or even better AWS... an Architectural Water Solution

...with a big warning that you are leaving the unbiased world and have to use this cheat on your own risk!

for me i can say, it would be better to have fake caustics than no caustics - now you have to fake them too and this in a very unhandy way.

[Half Life]

I have wondered about the feasibility of a "refraction displacement" render channel -- where we could use the filters in Photoshop (or the like) to displace the background to mimic true rendered Nd refraction.

Best,
Jason.

[Bubbaloo]

Hey don't fight for a bunch of rays

Unless it's Ray Charles. Fight for Ray Charles.

ray-charles111.jpg

[Hervé]

Ray Charles Rocks !!

[tom]

Why not Ray Wilson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC-MxbKRJ3k

[Hervé]

hell yeah.. very cool Tom..

[tom]

[Maximus3D]

How about a realtime pathtracing rendered game ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MATkVhy2 ... r_embedded

/ Magnus

[Aniki]

Thats Playstation 4 Footage

[thxraph]

Thea don't fake the caustics, it uses MLT to correctly compute them.

The RC stuff you found is an old tutorial on how to fake caustics, you can make the same using Maxwell, it'll work.

now see here: http://www.randomcontrol.com/ (home banner)
this is an Arion picture. Arion solve those caustics, without using MLT. This is the 1st unbiased renderer to do so, and it is unidir, it's getting added to fry too (the new brdf inogurated with Arion 1.6), and as fry is bidir, it'll work even better (understand here: converge faster).

Raph

[thxraph]

Thats Playstation 4 Footage

that's brigade 2 :s it's a toy as it is... not even the octan's level.

[Fernando Tella]

now see here: http://www.randomcontrol.com/ (home banner)
this is an Arion picture. Arion solve those caustics, without using MLT. This is the 1st unbiased renderer to do so, and it is unidir, it's getting added to fry too (the new brdf inogurated with Arion 1.6), and as fry is bidir, it'll work even better (understand here: converge faster).

Raph

Wow!

[eric nixon]

That arion render looks completely fake, not real at all, you is needing glasses?