Cycles for Softimage

[wireframex]

Hey Shekn

Any news about HDRMaster

While waiting for an update, here is the new version modified by me.
It's just a compound to use instead of the "background" shader.
I made some improvements and additions:
1. Modified the intervention of the "Sun". I realized that each HDRI has a completely different sun effect, so I scaled down the power considerably. Depending on the map, the power can be adjusted.
2. Added rotations on the X and Z axes.
3. Inverted scaling
4. small fixes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecut7ule61rbi ... 2.zip?dl=0

Thanks a lot
I have to try it soon

[avalon_70]

Hey Shekn

Any news about HDRMaster

While waiting for an update, here is the new version modified by me.
It's just a compound to use instead of the "background" shader.
I made some improvements and additions:
1. Modified the intervention of the "Sun". I realized that each HDRI has a completely different sun effect, so I scaled down the power considerably. Depending on the map, the power can be adjusted.
2. Added rotations on the X and Z axes.
3. Inverted scaling
4. small fixes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecut7ule61rbi ... 2.zip?dl=0

Thanks a lot
I have to try it soon

Note that the "Sun" parameter will have to be set completely different according to the HDRI map (in my example it goes from 0.15 to 200000).

[Shekn]

Changing topic:
doing a very large render (as we said last time) in Prompt, up to about 12000 px it works, above it goes out of memory of the video card (8gb).
Is there any setting I can work with?
It's not urgent, I've already delivered the job (done with redshift always in prompt).

May be you use batch render but with enabled gpu rendering? In this case the render may fails, because it requires to allocate memory in gpu to works with the rendering image. But I don't know precisely how it works.

[avalon_70]

Changing topic:
doing a very large render (as we said last time) in Prompt, up to about 12000 px it works, above it goes out of memory of the video card (8gb).
Is there any setting I can work with?
It's not urgent, I've already delivered the job (done with redshift always in prompt).

May be you use batch render but with enabled gpu rendering? In this case the render may fails, because it requires to allocate memory in gpu to works with the rendering image. But I don't know precisely how it works.

Yes, for me the render is only GPU
The error comes out only by increasing the size of the render, which seems strange to me, because logically it is the content of the scene that should impact on the RAM of the GPU and not the pixels of which the render is composed, but obviously my knowledge could to think the wrong thing.
In this case my scene is only for didactic purposes and as a possible Backup for a future request (my redshift is an old license that only supports GTX 1000).
Among other things, however, I got around the obstacle by creating 4 partitions with 4 crop windows

[opoppopopp]

Is Cycle finally got our per light object Associated Models ?
https://wiki.blender.org/wiki/Reference ... 4.0/Cycles

[Shekn]

This feature is under development. It works in some scenarios, but not in all. It will be released in Blender 4.0 at the end of the year.

[wireframex]

While waiting for an update, here is the new version modified by me.
It's just a compound to use instead of the "background" shader.
I made some improvements and additions:
1. Modified the intervention of the "Sun". I realized that each HDRI has a completely different sun effect, so I scaled down the power considerably. Depending on the map, the power can be adjusted.
2. Added rotations on the X and Z axes.
3. Inverted scaling
4. small fixes
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ecut7ule61rbi ... 2.zip?dl=0

Note that the "Sun" parameter will have to be set completely different according to the HDRI map (in my example it goes from 0.15 to 200000).

Forgot to thank you about it

[Shekn]

Small update - version 2.1.3. Cycles binaries are the same as previously. Only fixed some issues on the Softiamge addon. It can be download from the release page on github: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... ddon.2.1.3
This link contains more detailed description of the update.

[wireframex]

Small update - version 2.1.3. Cycles binaries are the same as previously. Only fixed some issues on the Softiamge addon. It can be download from the release page on github: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... ddon.2.1.3
This link contains more detailed description of the update.

Thanks a lot Shekn
Any news about HDRMaster ?
Regards
Phil

[FXDude]

Indeed thanks so much !

I'll be trying to render particles and strands soon enough !

[avalon_70]

Small update - version 2.1.3. Cycles binaries are the same as previously. Only fixed some issues on the Softiamge addon. It can be download from the release page on github: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... ddon.2.1.3
This link contains more detailed description of the update.

Thank you so much, Shekn

[FXDude]

Hi ! ( @ Shekn or anyone else who might help )

So I installed Sycles 2.1.3 (in Si 15 sp2)
and I get an error on one DLL that says :
<< A procedure couldn't be found in library >>



Did anyone else encounter this ?

Thanks !

[opoppopopp]

Just try https://www.dependencywalker.com/ to find that dll.
Most likely it is a certain version of VC++ redistributable.

or it is a conflict, and you try Isolate this plug-in by temporary disable other installed plug-ins, include user/workgroup directory to avoid conflicts.

[avalon_70]

Hi ! ( @ Shekn or anyone else who might help )

So I installed Sycles 2.1.3 (in Si 15 sp2)
and I get an error on one DLL that says :
<< A procedure couldn't be found in library >>



Did anyone else encounter this ?

Thanks !

I don't know if this is your case, but I saw that you have other plugins installed..
Check that none of the other plugins use the tbb.dll, which generated the same problem for me (in my case it was used in the Exocortex plugins).

[FXDude]

Just try https://www.dependencywalker.com/ to find that dll.
Most likely it is a certain version of VC++ redistributable.

or it is a conflict, and you try Isolate this plug-in by temporary disable other installed plug-ins, include user/workgroup directory to avoid conflicts.

I don't know if this is your case, but I saw that you have other plugins installed..
Check that none of the other plugins use the tbb.dll, which generated the same problem for me (in my case it was used in the Exocortex plugins).

Thanks to BOTH of you for your help,
it was indeed a conflict with something else, as starting from a fresh profile did Cycles WORK !

And in this case the conflict was with "S-USD"
( ironically from the same author,
perhaps are they referencing two different versions of the same resource or library ?
... or something )

Discovered by deleting half of all addons restarting, and repeating, until it worked,
and since I would delete alphabetically, "S-USD" was one of the last,
so had to delete half & restart a bunch of times lol

But nevertheless, IT WORKS !

And now Sycles can use native image texture sources
( as well as some support for "native" shader nodes, a bit like Redshift ) ,
which is GREAT !! ( among other things )

And not sure if it's because of my RTX card, but it's also pretty FAST,
while denoising can MUCH more easily survive animation without interframe "blotches" than before,
( provided you give it enough samples like 512 for interior scenes )
so no need for post processing, except maybe to ADD noise,
because the denoiser gets rid of ALL of it.
( will post tests soon )

So cheers, and mostly THANKS AGAIN !!

[avalon_70]

Hi, today I noticed a bug that affects the camera when it is animated.
I animated the "Focal Length" and when rendering the animation (in this case) the second frame does not read the animation correctly.
It doesn't do it in the preview, it doesn't do it with the render region and it doesn't do it if I render the single frame, but only if I render the entire animation.
In another scene the same thing happened to me but also on the animation of the movement which was moved forward by one frame.

If you need, this is simple scene were I tested it:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2uz7xbms ... rysru&dl=0