Removing interpolated reflections/refractions

[vlado]

Hey guys,

As I'm looking into merging my code for glossy Fresnel in the VRayMtl material, I would very much like to remove the code for interpolated glossy reflections/refractions, as it will become very complicated to support, and I will not make it work with the glossy Fresnel option anyways. The question is, does anyone still use interpolated reflections/refractions?

Best regards,
Vlado

[Vizioen]

I don't, but sometimes there are old models that do use them. Maybe it would be nice to have them converted/removed with the vray scene converter then.

[Morne]

I don't use it. It's a +1 from me to drop it

[racoonart]

I'm pretty sure someone will come up screaming in agony and despair about the missing interpolation . I would appreciate if these settings were removed finally - one thing less to worry about (even though we have scripts to clean up assets).

[zeronove]

never used here, so ...go for it

[NicoC]

Yes ,yes, yes, please remove it

[joconnell]

Never - historically all I heard about them was that they caused flickering issues anyway.

[Moriah]

Never used it either!

[Jiri.Matys]

Yes, remove it, only take place in material and now its useless.

[Macker]

I hate the interpolated reflections mode. +1 to remove it.

Also, what's glossy fresnel?

[vlado]

Also, what's glossy fresnel?

So you missed all those PBR threads then It's a more accurate way to compute Fresnel reflections on glossy materials that makes them somewhat more realistic (or way more realistic, depending on who you ask).

Best regards,
Vldo

[LudvikKoutny]

Yep, +1 on removing these. Any time i tried to use them, I would just get splotches instead of noise, so it was not really any win there anyway.

[Ihno]

I hate the interpolated reflections mode. +1 to remove it.

Also, what's glossy fresnel?

Read through this thread:
http://forums.chaosgroup.com/showthr...ularity-amount

Also never (successfully) used interpolation.

[rikou]

+1
Never used, never needed it

[Midiaeffects]

NNNNOOOOO!!!!

Just kidding... +1 to remove them.

-Eugenio