Some impressive work being done on improving #b3d Cycles sampling using ReSTIR: projects.blender.org/blender/blende…

I can't seem to find any reliable info on if #b3d Cycles supports compressed textures (e.g. dds DXT1 or DXT5s). Based on my quick test, it doesn't look like it. There is no memory savings in using .dds :(

Would love to see Doom3 being remastered with pathtracing. It was ahead of its time in terms of dynamic lighting, but was panned for being overly dark. Some GI can fix that right up. #RTXRemix #AIonRTX

Using everything I learned below, we can get 1.5GB of GPU memory saving on the Gooseberry benchmark: Packed Textures: 6024MB Unpacked Textures: 5589MB Unpacked Textures with greyscale maps converted to 8bit: 4592MB

It's Friday and I am lazy. So instead of showing you all the amazing things Blender 4.2 is going to have, just go read the #b3d release notes yourself: developer.blender.org/docs/release_n…

Working on HTML reporting of the texture compactor addon for #b3d

#b3d texture compactor is going well. HTML reporting is looking nice and clean: