Cycles Optix feature completeness #69800

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opened 2019-09-12 14:35:23 +02:00 by Brecht Van Lommel · 36 comments

The Optix backend for Cycle is currently experimental and lacks some features.

    • Baking support
    • Branched path tracing (feature was removed entirely)
    • Using CPU memory for rendering
    • Dynamic compilation of CUDA / Optix kernels
    • CPU + GPU rendering
    • Shader raytracing for AO and bevel

There are also a number of bugs and more urgent issues to solve for 2.81: #69801 (Cycles Optix tasks for 2.81)

With some further refactoring we could share more code with the CUDA and possibly other backends. Particularly for denoising and using CPU memory, as well as the split kernel organization.

The Optix backend for Cycle is currently experimental and lacks some features. * - [x] Baking support * - [x] Branched path tracing (feature was removed entirely) * - [x] Using CPU memory for rendering * - [x] Dynamic compilation of CUDA / Optix kernels * - [x] CPU + GPU rendering * - [x] Shader raytracing for AO and bevel There are also a number of bugs and more urgent issues to solve for 2.81: #69801 (Cycles Optix tasks for 2.81) ~~With some further refactoring we could share more code with the CUDA and possibly other backends. Particularly for denoising and using CPU memory, as well as the split kernel organization.~~
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Action point 3 (Using CPU memory for rendering) is implemented now: 8378db40c7.

Action point 3 (Using CPU memory for rendering) is implemented now: 8378db40c7.

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