Very Soon

[arconovum]

Hi again, just a heads up.

So after modifying my editor heavily with ~400 modifications, new features , API enhancements , 100 fixes, since January. I am finishing up my texturing features by the end of August, and will finally be integrating your engine. I am posting this particular screen grab, to show how your engine will be controlled internally with nodes, very similar to those seen here for NVidias Falcor, but Falcor will no longer be implemented as the project is abandoned, and too many lingering and broken unaddressed features make it unviable.

EDIT: oh yeah I forgot to mention, yes this is showing Half-Life, but this editor has nothing to do with that, it is not, and will not be a HL2 editor, this editor is for other purposes altogether.

[arconovum]

Also, you will need to put up with whatever I end up naming your engine. Since you still have not given it one. Unless of course you provide one now! my two possibilities have been 'matter ray', or 'ray engine'. not very creative but gets the point across.

[sergcpp]

Hi! Looks cool. If you publish the source code somewhere, I’d be happy to help with the integration and bug fixing.

As for the name, I called it “ArchRender” for some time, but that name is already taken. So let’s go with ArchShade.

As for a heads-up from my side:

• I’m finishing a major shading rework to match Blender 5’s new Principled BSDF material. It brings energy-preserving diffuse/specular, proper sheen implementation, and many other improvements.
• After that, I’ll finally move on to adding volumetrics to the path tracer to bring it to feature parity with the real-time renderer.

[arconovum]

ArchShade it is! as for releases, I don't know if that will happen, once released you kinda loose control of the thing, So I'm hesitant to do that at this point. But if I ever did release, It would not be until such a time where I feel the application is really well anchored so to speak, to permit that.

Edit: In fact ArchShade is really quite perfect as this application is mostly about architecture.

[arconovum]

I do have a question about rendering various water types. Now I know you have examples rendering pool water , and that is about the easiest albeit the stochastic reflections. But I skipped in my test battery to do water! Can your 'AShade' render these two large and small bodies of water. The first being more lake deep, and the second shallow river deep, Now these were exported HL2 scenes from my editor and generated with Stable Diffusion, and the focus is strictly the water.

A large / deep body of water, but not a lake.

This second image is more of a shallow/narrow river and you can see the organic material ,and sand in the water, this probably could be replaced with a fog volume, but can it be done?

[sergcpp]

Simple reflective surface will not look right in this case. I have a dedicated water surface internally with scrolling waves and fake caustics. Will be added once I figure out how to make it work in PT mode.

[arconovum]

I hope this may help with PT, I think its not just a maya plugin but a standalone as well, https://github.com/lukedan/libfluid