Rayscaper Alpha Version Available

[Rich O Brien]

Here's an interior render of a guggenheim-ish type scene...

Rayscaper is still earlier in development so I'm reluctant to push it. It does have certain shading artifacts that I've let Thomas know about.

But overall I think it's very capable. I love the Polyhaven integration.

[solo]

Is there a shadow catcher material?

[ntxdave]

Thanks Rich. I as hoping for something like a room or office setting but I understand that it is early in the cycle. Wish it would work with SU 2020.

[pixelcruncher]

@solo said:

Is there a shadow catcher material?

Not yet, but it's planned, should be there in a couple of weeks.

Here's the planned road map for 1.0: https://rayscaper.com/docs/roadmap/

Cheers,
Thomas

[ntxdave]

Thanks for sharing the release plans.

Just hoping I will be able to use with SU 2020 and that it will be something I can afford.

[pixelcruncher]

@ntxdave said:

Thanks for sharing the release plans.

Just hoping I will be able to use with SU 2020 and that it will be something I can afford.

Yes, I'm looking into supporting SU2020. It will be part of one of the upcoming releases.

And yes, I plan to offer great software that everyone can afford. Of course with a discount for premium members.

Cheers,
Thomas

[pc10pc]

Hi,
I'm on SU 21.1.332 and having the same issues with toolbar not showing up.

[pixelcruncher]

@pc10pc said:

Hi,
I'm on SU 21.1.332 and having the same issues with toolbar not showing up.

Hi,

Could you check if you can get it via these instructions? If that doesn’t help, send me a private message.

Cheers,
Thomas

[majid]

I watched your YouTube video and seems the engine is great. Just installed and seems I have a problem. Maybe because I have no SCF plugin toolbar installed.

PS: it solved, I installed the SCF plugin and now I have the Rayscraper!

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[majid]

It works charmingly!

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[Rich O Brien]

@majid said:

It works charmingly!

I'd love to see you try this on it....

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=76396&p=693038#p692999

[majid]

@rich o brien said:

@majid said:

It works charmingly!

I'd love to see you try this on it....

https://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=76396&p=693038#p692999

Okay Rich,... I am working on it... 13% progress..

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[majid]

29% without any denoising and I believe it is good enough.
I stopped it on 49% progress and it seems good (despite without any denoising)

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[pixelcruncher]

@majid said:

It works charmingly!

It's great to see a talented artist like you taking an interest in Rayscaper! I saw you sent me some feedback, so I will go and digest that.

Cheers,
Thomas

[jo-ke]

due to the sunset of twilghtrender I stumbled across this new alternative.

downloaded and licensed it today.

looks promissing....

[jo-ke]

Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

[Rich O Brien]

@jo-ke said:

Is there a tutorial for glass and emitter materials?

It has a Glass shader in the Material Type dropdown[1]

and for the Disney shader you can enable Emmission for geometry[2]

[jo-ke]

Thank you: glas, is solved.

emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?

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[pixelcruncher]

@unknownuser said:

emitter not. with "blackbody emission" I don't get the submenu

You should be able to to open the submenu by clicking the chevron or text (1). You can expand everything by clicking the plus button (2):

@unknownuser said:

also hidden layers are rendered. how can I avoid this?

Hidden objects / tags / layers isn't supported yet in the alpha version. It will be there for the 1.0 version.

Cheers,
Thomas

[jo-ke]

thank you. I didn't see this. solutions are so simple....

next problems:

is it possible to do an emitter with textures? like in my example the sign of the tramway?

why can't I get rid of the blue textures? they are textured in SU and all faces are frontfaces

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