2024-10-29 Render & Cycles Meeting

Meetings
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Attendees

  • Lukas Stockner (Blender)
  • Nikita Sirgienko (Intel)
  • Patrick Mours (NVIDIA)
  • Sergey Sharybin (Blender)
  • Thomas Dinges (Blender)
  • Weizhen Huang (Blender)

Notes

  • For 4.3
    • Fix for OSL wavelength node on OptiX is under review
    • Need to gather nice image for the release notes
    • Vega GPUs have a lot of issues, hard to guarantee render quality. The GPUs are not supported by ROCm. The proposal is to remove their support.
  • Other
    • During the conference Lukas started looking into camera lens customization: WIP: Cycles: Support for custom OSL cameras #129495
    • Meeting went into discussion of making OSL faster. No exact plan how to tackle it yet.
    • Carries to the follow-ups of this week: the refractive materials on the point clouds. What is the expected behavior (report)
    • GPU compilation step is often running out of memory. Need to find a way to better “space” builds. There are some ideas how to tackle it.

Practical Info

This is a weekly video chat meeting for planning and discussion of Blender rendering development. Any contributor (developer, UI/UX designer, writer, …) working on rendering in Blender is welcome to join and add proposed items to the agenda.

For users and other interested parties, we ask to read the meeting notes instead so that the meeting can remain focused.

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