Small Cheetah3D 3.2 preview

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Small Cheetah3D 3.2 preview

Hi,
here is just a small preview of caustic rendering which will make it into the next free update (v3.2). I hope you like it.
The scene is just light by a single point light. Once with caustics OFF and once with caustics ON. Rendertime of the scene with caustics was 5 seconds.

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that is excellent to see Martin... can't wait... any ideas when...? ;) (either a beta or the final...)

now all we need is photon mapping for neon and other lighting effects... ;););)

thanx and cheers
Trevor
 
that is one very fine looking bump on the timber too Martin... nice work....!!!!

maybe you could put eyes on the ring and submit it in the Cheetah competition...:D:D:D
 
Very nice Martin!! Will this also effect interior renders? It's still hard to create a realistic interior (the lighting that is). Are the caustics the same as photonmapping or is this something completely different?
btw. Do you also have a preview of some new materialoptions :) ?
Can't wait for the next release!!

Regards,

Peter
 
peer said:
Very nice Martin!! Will this also effect interior renders? It's still hard to create a realistic interior (the lighting that is). Are the caustics the same as photonmapping or is this something completely different?
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Hi,
these photonmaps will be also used for interior renderings of course. I know that you are waiting for that for quite some time. ;)
I already renderered some simple interior scenes with it but I still have to but in some work to polish it up and make it feature complete.

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TrevorM-L said:
can't wait... any ideas when...? ;) (either a beta or the final...)

now all we need is photon mapping for neon and other lighting effects... ;););)
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Hi,
if everything works well maybe a month.

Arbitrary shaped geometrical light sources wont make it into that release. Sorry.

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TrevorM-L said:
maybe you could put eyes on the ring and submit it in the Cheetah competition...:D:D:D
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I hope the people don't think that the contest was a aprils fool. Since I got almost no returns after the announcement. :neutral: Is spring the wrong time for a contest?

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Hi Martin,
Any chance of showing us the interior render?
One month is soon enough for the next release!
Great work. And please take a holiday.

Regards,

Peter
 
peer said:
Any chance of showing us the interior render?
One month is soon enough for the next release!
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It is very unspectecular and quite buggy. When I have something nicer I will post it.

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Martin
 
Martin said:
Hi,
here is just a small preview of caustic rendering which will make it into the next free update (v3.2). I hope you like it.
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Very nice, Martin !!!
Will this be available before the end of the contest ? If not, that's Ok. Then we have it for the 3rd contest ... :)
 
Martin said:
Since I got almost no returns after the announcement. :neutral: Is spring the wrong time for a contest?
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People have been aware of the contest for some time. I am not sure of the kind of returns you were expecting. Everybody is likely (hopefully!) fine tuning/ adjusting their scenes/renderings. At least, I do ! :D
 
Hi,
caustics now also work with refraction :D That's a really great effect to play with.

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