Cycles for Softimage

[wireframex]

I hope that is enough motivation @shekn

[Maximus]

new cycles is going to have pathguiding \o/ finally

https://developer.blender.org/T92571

[opoppopopp]

or maybe we post some more picture rendered by Scycle here

[Shekn]

Next update: version 2.1
Download here: https://ssoftadd.github.io/syclesSecondGenPage.html

This is completely rewritten version of the addon. In most it has the same functionality as previous 1.x versions, but there are some differences:
1. It's open-sourced. The link to the sources: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles
2. In this version I use built-in into Cycles functionality for subdividing meshes. It has some limitations (in particular, does not support deformation blur for subdivided meshes) and sometimes produce non-correct result. But this approach is more simple, because it use already existed functionality, instead of rewriting connector to OpenSubdiv.
3. Remove stupid optimizations for culling objects in the scene. In previous versions there was parameter for culling objects from the scene by visibility or distance to the camera. Theses optimizations did not produce any significant effect.
4. Improved shaderball previews. Now it previews not only material, but also any supported shader node. If the node contains several output ports, then it previews the first one.
5. Remove background color from render settings. Use global ambience scene parameter instead. This approach is more natural for Softimage.
6. Supports some basics parameters of the default light sources (point, infinite or spot). Not all parameters are supported, but at least color, intensity, area sizes and so on. Also support shader connections inside light render tree.
7. Supports some basic parameters of the default Phong, Lambert and Hair Shading shader nodes. Not all parameters, because most of parameters in phong shader (for example) does not make seance for principled bsdf (again, for example).
8. All Cycles shaders are the same. So, all previous shader compounds should works. But there is one difference. Now ImageTexture and EnvironmentTexture shader nodes use Image widget for select textures. In previous versions it use simple string filed for setting texture file. So, now these textures will not be recognized, because the addon gets textures from another parameter of the shader node. In particular, HDR Master addon does not works with new version of the Sycles addon. But I plane to update it.
9. Of course, this version contains all features of the current Cycles render from Blender. In particular, lightgroups, shadow caustics and so on.
10. By default the addon distributed without libraries for gpu rendering. This is bacuse the size of the addon is very large (110 mb) and archive with gpu libraries also is large (in total 78 mb). But if it is required, you can easily download this additional archive and copy files to the directory with installed addon.

If there are some errors, bugs, crashes or questions - please, write here or on the Issues page in the github repository.

[I3D]

Wow! Thank you Shekn 👏🙏

[wireframex]

Thanks a lot
Real great for the community !!

[wireframex]

Hi Shekn,

I can't see my graphic cards (to check them) in the new cycles plugin I can check only my CPU.
Phil



EDIT : It seems it use only 1 graphic card

EDIT2 : I tried with lib folder from Sycles_1_12 without success

[I3D]

Hmm it doesn't seem to be using the GPU at all in my case. How do I activate it?

Also, in the denoiser, the only thing available is OIDN, which tells me Optix and GPU library are not loaded!

Any ideas?

[wireframex]

Hmm it doesn't seem to be using the GPU at all in my case. How do I activate it?

I unchecked the CPU and the render do the job
I suppose only a GPU is running but the render seems to be slower as usual I suppose all my GPU doesn't want to work together

Also, in the denoiser, the only thing available is OIDN, which tells me Optix and GPU library are not loaded!

Same here

Any ideas?

Only our marvelous developper can do something for us

[Shekn]

Default *.xsiaddon does not contains libraries for gpu rendering and denoising. You should download it from here: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... .1/lib.zip
Then extract archive and place lib folder into installed addon folder. Libraries from old versions of the Sycles are not compatible.

Or may be you say that even with this lib folder inside addon, gpus are not recognizable? I will try to test it on clear machines.

[wireframex]

Default *.xsiaddon does not contains libraries for gpu rendering and denoising. You should download it from here: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... .1/lib.zip
Then extract archive and place lib folder into installed addon folder. Libraries from old versions of the Sycles are not compatible.

Done it several times with manual erase of the Sycles folder to avoid bugs with the same result.

Or may be you say that even with this lib folder inside addon, gpus are not recognizable?

Exactly

[Maximus]

i have 2x nvidia 1080 and even after clean install with lib from github doesnt work :/

[I3D]

I unchecked the CPU and the render do the job
I suppose only a GPU is running but the render seems to be slower as usual I suppose all my GPU doesn't want to work together

That is the first thing I tried, looked at the task manager couldn't see anything happening to the GPU, mine is a 3080 RTX.

[Shekn]

Ok, I understand the problem.

[Shekn]

Try this file: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... Plugin.dll

Now it should recognize all cuda gpus in the system, even without lib folder inside addon directory. But without lib it will make empty render, if some gpu is selected.

If it will works, then I will pack the addon as xsiaddon-file.

[Maximus]

Try this file: https://github.com/Tugcga/Sycles/releas ... Plugin.dll

Now it should recognize all cuda gpus in the system, even without lib folder inside addon directory. But without lib it will make empty render, if some gpu is selected.

If it will works, then I will pack the addon as xsiaddon-file.

works, both 1080 get recognized and renders fine, thanks a lot !!!