Design task to coordinate the Render & Cycles projects. This is a curated list of items agreed on by module owners.

Order of importance:

• Very Important - These we should handle before the next release.
• Somewhat Important - These issues would be nice to do as soon as possible
• Less Important - Extra polish, nice to have
• ? Incomplete - Tasks needing more details before implementing.

Cycles

Features

• D3509: Add support for tiled images and the UDIM naming scheme
• D4304: Compositor: Added denoising node (OpenImageDenoise)
• Procedural texture improvements (summer of code)
• Adaptive subdivision
• D4837: Cycles: Add support for adding custom AOV render passes
• D3607: Cycles: Implement render passes that contain all lighting from lights in a specified group
• D4255: Cycles: Added feature overrides
• D4204: Ray and Shader counters for Cycles
• D2808: Cycles Networking support

Performance

• D5363: Add OptiX device implementation to Cycles
• D4686: Adaptive Sampling for Cycles.
• Many light sampling
• Default to Embree for CPU and GPU ray tracing (summer of code)
• Texture cache and mipmaps
• Blue noise dithering
• Scarmbling distance
• D4676: Cycles: Improved sampling for sphere lights.

Usability

• Reduce shadow terminator artifacts
• D4459: Cycles: Added fix for bump terminator problem.

Render Pipeline

• Color management improvemts
• D3203: Baking system overhaul: Move baking settings from render settings into BakePasses
• D3959: Compositor: Redesign Cryptomatte node for better usability
• D3202: Cycles/UI: Implement dropdown menu that shows the available attributes in the Attribute node
• Displacement baking with Cycles
• Vertex color baking with Cycles

Paper Cuts

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