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  • #31
    In general it's better to use newer versions of V-Ray since there are constant improvements..

    I managed to cut about 20% from the build process of the ocean and will keep looking at speeding it up a few more hours before checking what to do with the horizon. Bad thing about the ocean construction is that (for this scene particularly, but these are close proportions to any other) about 15% go into building the ocean, 35% go into subdividing the surface into more polys, and the final 40% are the transfer of the mesh data to 3ds Max itself, which on top of that happens on just one core or Max might crash...

    Will ping you when there are more news. The optimizations will be in tomorrow's nightly.
    Svetlin Nikolov, Ex Phoenix team lead

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    • #32
      Alright, so in the end managed to bring down about 25-30% of the ocean construction time...
      Svetlin Nikolov, Ex Phoenix team lead

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      • #33
        Hey,

        Reworked the Horizon Roughness parameter and I hope most things which were wrong about it are now okay Having a bit less mess with the horizon normals also helped V-Ray render a little faster as well. Here are some shots - the change will be in tomorrow's nightly:

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        • #34
          Great improvements!! Thanks! Here are my results from testing some just now:

          https://i.imgur.com/LMf3wfm.jpg

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          • #35
            Is this nightly safe to use for production? Don't want to spend lots of time installing it only to find that it was a waste of time + a deadline could be missed. If not, when will a safe version with this fix come out do you think?

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            • #36
              The nightlies could always be more unstable than official build, but we run over a hundred automated tests on them and this nightly just passed all successfully. If there are any issues, we try to fix them ASAP, so we only need about a days since a nightly comes out in order to be able to run it through the tests and declare it safe or problematic.

              Btw, check this out when it comes to fast install of a new version - https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...+and+Uninstall
              Svetlin Nikolov, Ex Phoenix team lead

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