[Bf-cycles] Enabling hair rendering on GPU?

[Tobias Oelgarte]

For me it was still faster to render with GPU and the mentioned slowdown 
as to render only with CPU. That means: Even if it makes Cycles slower 
on the GPU it is still quite a bit faster as to render on CPU. I would 
really like to have the option (maybe an own build option) to enable GPU 
hair rendering, even if i have to consider the slowdown.

Am 16.02.2013 18:20, schrieb Brecht Van Lommel:
> The problem at the moment is that it slows down GPU rendering
> significantly even when there is no hair in the scene, due to the
> extra complexity of the kernel. So that would need to be solved before
> it can be enabled.
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Tobias Oelgarte
> <tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> i was using an older build with the first patches of the hair rendering
>> feature together with my GPU. But currently it is only available for
>> CPU, despite the fact that it was working just fine. Could we (re)enable
>> the hair rendering again for the GPU inside the experimental feature
>> set? I would really like to test it out, even if it would be unstable.
>> It would also help to file bug reports to make it work, if it not
>> already does.
>>
>> Greetings from
>> Tobias Oelgarte
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