Gottfried Hofmann writes:
Cycles has one weak point and that is rendering caustics. That's why it makes sense to have more than one engine in your tool belt. Appleseed is both open source and production proven and it renders caustics kinda efficiently thanks to SPPM:
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Thank you for pointing attention on other render engine!
LuxCoreRender is also a very nice tool ;)
Rickyx
HAve not heard of this one. Definitely will check it out.
Very impressive! I might try re-rendering some scenes with Appleseed. Will it render using a GPU?
Appleseed is purely CPU-based at the moment.
I installed Appleseed and the Blenderseed add-on in Blender 2.79 on my Macbook Pro
Blender 2.79 has since refused to start, I just get the dock icon bouncing up and down. If I hit command-option-escape I get Blender (not responding)
I've installed a new copy from the original .zip file I had already downloaded, Downloaded a new .zip and installed from there and have copied 2.79 which is working on my Mac Pro to my laptop but none of these attempts has made any difference.
I can't get 2.79 to run. 2.80 works, as does 2.78
Anyone have any ideas - both my computers are running OS 10.10.5
thank you for sharing.
isn't it possible to implement 'SPPM' to cycles as well?
Hi , thats a nice video and the results are amazing,
but I can't get it to work. Neither in 2.79b nor in 2.8
On activating after installation a n error message occurs !?
Is there a special blender version necessary ?