[Bf-cycles] Cycles contributor meeting at Blender Conference

[Thomas Volkmann]

Just want to add:
- support for getting vertex-group information (maybe just an ID?). At the
moment I give each vertex group a different Vertex-color that I can read with
cycles nodes, but it is tedious and very hard to manage with a custom OCIO
because the values seem a bit messed up (e.g. vertex color rgb(0.2) seems to be
something different when using an ACES config)...
 
sorry for the noise, please continue ....
 
/Thomas
 

> Lukas Stockner <lukas.stockner at freenet.de> hat am 6. Oktober 2016 um 20:12
> geschrieben:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I think Brecht's mail covers the most important points, but here are some more
> specific topics I'd like to address:
>
> - Animation rendering: Currently, Cycles only cares about single frames, but
> more and more papers are based on information from multiple frames (including
> most denoising papers). Can and should this be considered in Cycles?
> - Render Passes: The current system is pretty much based on the legacy Blender
> systems, but for the future a better system will be needed for a lot of
> features (AOVs, light groups, possibly Cryptomatte...).
> - Light Transport: Currently, Cycles is based on straightforward
> unidirectional path tracing with next event estimation, but there are a lot of
> approaches to improve upon that. Questions there are:
> - What limitations does the current system have (that matter in actual use)?
> - Is it desirable or even possible to go towards (optional) bidirectional
> methods? Is it viable to limit the feature set for some methods (e.g. no ray
> visibility) if they're not compatible with some options?
> - If not, what else can be improved (candidates are e.g. caching the spatial
> light distribution or gradient-domain path tracing)?
> - Network Rendering
>
> Am 02.10.2016 um 21:19 schrieb Thomas Dinges:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Blender Conference is getting closer and I was asked to coordinate the
> > Cycles meeting a bit. (See Tons original mail below for details about
> > the meeting).
> >
> > I would like Cycles contributors, who attend the conference to mail back
> > topic suggestions and wishes. What shall be discussed during the
> > meeting, is there anything in particular we should focus on?
> >
> > Apart from a brief introduction round, discussing a roadmap for the next
> > year, there should be plenty of time for other topics.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > Am 10.08.2016 um 12:33 schrieb Ton Roosendaal:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> During the Blender Conference I would like to reserve a meeting room with
> >> 16-20 seats (around a table) for a couple of more focused Cycles
> >> developers/contributor meetings. This would be open for anyone who
> >> contributes to Cycles in one or another way (cycles coders, 3rd party
> >> product integrators, studio pipeline engineers).
> >>
> >> Access to the sessions would be based on reservation, I will maintain a
> >> list of participants, which I'll verify with Brecht and Sergey. I'll give
> >> priority to active contributors and coders. One or two artists who are
> >> closely involved could be added on the list too.
> >>
> >> Goal is to have quality time together, on high technical level, to discuss
> >> the current projects and agree on a roadmap. No streaming or recording
> >> would happen here.
> >>
> >> Special attention could go to companies/developers who integrate Cycles in
> >> their own products or studio pipelines, to make sure they can keep using
> >> Cycles and that they feel welcome to contribute back. Finally the need for
> >> an 'architecture review board' could be checked on.
> >>
> >> The main topics and outcome of the meeting can be presented the day after
> >> in an open feedback session in the Salon.
> >>
> >> I suggest to schedule as follows:
> >>
> >> Saturday 29 October: Room available from 13:30 - 17:00
> >> Sunday 30 October: Salon presentation in afternoon.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> -Ton-
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------------------------
> >> Ton Roosendaal - ton at blender.org - www.blender.org
> >> Chairman Blender Foundation, Producer Blender Institute
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> >>
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