Amazing!

And it's not Presto either ? 👀

It has support for it but it is not there out of the box.

It's such a shame that Mixer is likely not gonna be developed anymore.

They gotta keep the hype traing going, the money flowing in, to keep the investors, lure more governments in , and so people don't start to wonder about the overpromises, the actual usability, the insanely inflated bubble and circular investment schemes.

My partner just re-started uni and there a whole course on AI. 🫠
It’s ego I think, they want to bath in the awe of people who have no experience with AI and to feel like they are part of the “miracle”.
Also it’s easy.

Isn't adding a black hole to your render a pretty good optimization? I mean if a black hole swallows a light ray you don't need to continue tracing it 🤔

Phew, that looks much better. Rogue ggx sampling was making everything glossy, but broken glossy.

There's many issues which mostly come down to me being lazy to learn the light transport math and going just by intuition or trial and error.
Also, I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how to generate random numbers for sampling which are well-spread and decorrelated, i think I got it now.

If you want only terrain Gaea is state of the art rn for erosion sim etc. but for finalizing, scattering you would still have to go to e.g. Houdini.
World creator is more complete package with vegetation scattering etc.
I would still go Gaea though.

Will any of the presentations be up on youtube later like in previous years ? Or the only way now is the virtual siggraph pass?

I've had a lot of unsecussful switches, trying different ditros and being frustrated. PopOS was the distro that finaly worked out of the box with no issues on several different machines, been using it for years.
( I've switched to mac recently, but for the hardware)