Cycles the paths to success

[@ZachHixsonTutorials]

This is really cool! There have been so many instances where a glass or reflective surface catches a reflection of something I don't want it to catch, so being able to actually SEE where it's catching would be awsome

[@BlenderhilfeDe]

great idea! that would be a helpfull ADDON to understand and tweak rendering on a fundamental level.

[@PowerSports]

This is absolutely my favorite talk of the conference!!! It'd be awesome if you developed an addon with a GUI. ^_^

[@paulmelis1862]

Thanks! :) I'm indeed working on turning this into an addon. One tricky thing (as mentioned in the talk) is that it needs a hacked version of blender to get a dump of the path/ray data. I'll need to talk to the Blender devs to see if we can enable the code that does the dumping by default, without causing too much of a rendering slowdown.

[@paulmelis1862]

Well, I'm working on getting it to work with the upcoming 2.79, as some of the Cycles internals changed slightly. The add-on exists in basic form.

[@angelotartanian6396]

any progress on this? if you don't have the time to finish it, would you mind sharing the code you have so far on github (or somewhere else)

[@bollingeraaron]

​@@paulmelis1862 I would also love if you could share an add-on or source code to replicate what you shared in your presentation! I have been searching for such functionality and was disappointed to find out that no one had actually done it until I found your video!

[@TitusSc]

What's with the camera shot from 12:30 to 13:30? The presenter is trying to explain some stuff on the screen so why did the editor kept the shot where the camera shows the less of it Great presentation though