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by denisb
Tue Mar 21, 2017 8:55 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays
Replies: 126
Views: 41888

Re: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays

Just another example of CADRays rendering. The ring looks so real, incredible. Any plans on high dynamic range support? Yes, we plan to add support of exporting rendering results into HDR images (HDR/EXR) in the next version, so it will be possible to perform custom tone mapping in external softwar...
by denisb
Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:06 am
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays
Replies: 126
Views: 41888

Re: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays

Just another example of CADRays rendering.
by denisb
Fri Mar 17, 2017 4:16 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays
Replies: 126
Views: 41888

Re: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays

Thank you for your feedback! We'll try to improve UI in the next version. Please find some answers below. 1. Light source intensity box says "power". So I thought, it means "fixed total power". But from experience, I think it is actually fixed brightness. Because when I tweak sol...
by denisb
Fri Mar 17, 2017 7:59 am
Forum: Users Showcase
Topic: Optics in FreeCAD
Replies: 35
Views: 46879

Re: Optics in FreeCAD

Got an image of some stuff through the lens! lens-scene 2 render.png On AMD Radeon 7700 and with regular mouse, CADRays is behaving much much better, and makes a nice rendering faster. Thank you so much for testing the app. It is great to see the first real user! Regarding your rendering, it seems ...
by denisb
Wed Mar 15, 2017 1:12 pm
Forum: Open discussion
Topic: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays
Replies: 126
Views: 41888

Re: Photo-realistic rendering of FreeCAD models with CADRays

The key point is that CADRays performs all the computations on a GPU (both AMD and NVIDIA are supported), so it provides interactive path tracing. But, it means that you need discrete GPU in order to get the maximum from this technology.