Vray gpu progressive caustics

[luisgamino2]

Hi
When are we going to see progressive caustics for vray and vray gpu? And Also are we going to have atmospheric control for individual lights???

thanks

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Hey Luis,

Progressive Caustics is not supported on GPU, the current CPU implementation is not gonna work on GPU hardware for technical reason. We need to do some research on this topic first, then come up with a GPU implementation
This is on the GPU roadmap for a future release, it is just that we have more important tasks at hand now.
At the meantime, I have a workaround on GPU for Caustics using light projection. It should get the job done for now, upload me a reference picture and I will show you a setup

Best,
Muhammed

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi
When are we going to see progressive caustics for vray and vray gpu? And Also are we going to have atmospheric control for individual lights???
thanks

The Progressive Caustics feature that you've seen in V-Ray for 3ds Max can be exposed in V-Ray for SketchUp even now.
The thing is though we were waiting for the new method to become more stable and also GPU supported before we expose it.
I'll revisit this topic and maybe we can show the option and mark it as experimental.

Regards,
Konstantin

[Karol.Osinski]

Hi Konstantin, is there progress on this matter? Any rough timeframe where we could see experimental GPU caustics?

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi Karol.Osinski ,

The progressive Caustics are already available in the latest V-Ray 5 for SketchUp version.
GPU support however is something we still haven't done.

Konstantin