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Is current version of KRay fully compatible with new Lightwave 2015?

If it will appear new LW, Kray will supported it. I am not sure how long G. will support old Kray - I have to ask him.
But I think I know what you mentioned: new functions. Some of them will not work because they are "inside" LW Engine.
Importance Sampling - this we will have in K3 as new feature. This function is strongly connected with Engine Render so Kray will not "see" it and we must add our (we have this as feature on the list). Importance Sampling is special HDRi sampling which reduce errors from "Hot Photons"...is not science but is nice to have it.
Match Perspective - finally we will have build in Lightwave. This will work in Kray without any problems because this feature is connected with LW camera so Kray just follow what camera shows from LW.
Genoma is internal animation bone system and END of this pipeline is animation. So whatever you see in Layout Kray also see and render it.
Edge Rendering - I doubt will be supported.
Kray is third part of software and some things from LW are not visible for Kray because doesn`t exist SDK for that.

I've noticed that FiberFX has now its own SDK, so it should open some possibilities for third party renderers like Kray.

brownie wrote:I've noticed that FiberFX has now its own SDK, so it should open some possibilities for third party renderers like Kray.

Thanks for info. With that can be possible making shader for K3

A noob question from me,

Will there be any shader for cloth material in K3? I'm still having difficulty in setting up realistic fabric texture.

We have ready a couple shaders done special for K3 and his engine. Velvet will ask G. is he willing to do it. This is very complex material with slow rendering.
What we have now in K3:
- fast physical glass with refraction spectrum color
- SSS
- displacement

Meanwhile I try simulate velvet by Nodes

Hey. Whether there any news?

promity wrote:Hey. Whether there any news?

Hello!
Yes I testing now since 2 weeks final update for LW2015. If will be nothing strange, next week will be update. In gallery I posted some my renders done by LW2015 + Kray 2.58 and seems everything is ok. I really stress Kray by Node system from LW + many others thinks: heavy scenes, instances, old scenes and still no crashes G. want be sure everything is ok.

Thank you very much!

kray 2.58 it's ok with LW 2015.2 for me.

Thanks

Alexis wrote:kray 2.58 it's ok with LW 2015.2 for me.

Thanks

Thanks! Apparently when G. finish Kray for LW2015 it appear LW2015v02
...but it should not be problem with this, there in LW are just cosmetics changes.

Please post here informations if are any problems with Kray under LW2015.
There in LW2015 are also some problems (why Newtek updated to version 02 last time) ...so any information can help Grzegorz. Thanks!

Is there a demo that works in 2015? I just downloaded and installed the current demo version and it crashes 2015.2 straight away.

Please be patience. G. fight now with K3 but I will remind him again to compile version for LW2105. I am not sure what will be situation with LW2015v02...is seems there again some changes in SDK so I suggest stick with LW2015v01.

Alexis wrote:kray 2.58 it's ok with LW 2015.2 for me.

Thanks

I'm getting a crash every time I hit render here.