Merging Lightcaches?

[Robert1977]

Dear all,

hope i don't ask this a second time in the forum. Is it possible to merge lightcaches?
I use lightcaches not just for the calculation of the irradiance map, but also for glossy rays (option: use light cache for glossy rays ^^). This speeds up the renderings a lot. So, until now i precalculated lightcaches and irradiance maps for sequences of 300 images, then blended the final renderings over 10 frames to get the final movie.
To do without this, I could merge irradiance maps and lightcaches to render the whole camera movement in one flow.
Is there a solution for this?

Best regards

Robert

[vlado]

You can use the irradiance map viewer to merge light cache files, but I'm not sure how useful this will be.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Robert1977]

Dear Vlado, in my version this is not activated. The merge option does only work if i load an irradiance map, not a lightcache. I can open a lightcache, but not merge. Why do you think it might not be useful? Is there any version of the map viewer were merging lightcaches was added?

Best regards

Robert

[Robert1977]

Dear Vlado, do you have some information on how to merge lightcache files with the irradiance map viewer? Would be really helpful if this is possible.

Best regards

Robert

[vlado]

Yes, please email me to vlado@chaosgroup.com and I'll get you an updated version of the imapviewer tool.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Robert1977]

Thanks, Vlado, I just did.

Best regards

Robert