Rendering

Some examples of renderings (mostly CAD) made by Light Tracer users in the Web version:

https://github.com/light-tracer/issues/issues/4

After downloading and opening the Beta version, it asks for a "Username" and "Password...

What are they supposed to be?

Hi Yahya,

Please sign up on the https://lighttracer.org to get the account.

In order to start using the app, please enter your email (username) and password.

First impressions:

• The Materials Library needs to be expanded, as well as the Environments Library.
• The supported file formats don't - currently - include any software file formats (like SLDPRT, ipt, CATPart, etc.).
• There isn't an Undo button, keyboard shortcut, etc.
• Floors cannot be resized, neither can other imported parts.
• While adding materials, single faces cannot be selected (the whole part must have the same material).
• The fact that the watermark can be removed is pretty nice, but custom watermarks cannot be added.

Thanks a lot for feedback!

Some remarks:

• Material library will be expanded in near future (and ability to import/export materials is planned as well)
• Only STEP/IGES is supported. 3DM may be added later. To the moment, we have no plans to support another formats
• It is possible to undo transformation (please see screenshot attached)
• Floors can be transformed and resized as well as other objects (please check Transform tool)
• We plan mesh decomposing tool (to split mesh into connected components -- faces). So you will be able to assign materials to sub-meshes
• Thanks for remark regarding watermark -- will be implemented in release

I would also share some ideas behind the Light Tracer. We do not plan to make a competitor for heavy and powerful visualization programs. Instead, the goal is to create an effective and easy-to-use GPU physically-correct renderer, the main feature of which is the ability to create scenes on a desktop, and then visualize it directly in the Web browser.

Thanks for the great model!

Any feedback regarding the renderer is appreciated.

Thanks!

Just small remark regarding render -- it seems that the number of bounces need to be increased for proper rendering of refractive object (we are thinking how to tune it automatically):

https://grabcad.com/library/rings-jewelry-gems

Great! If you need to group objects to manage common material, it is possible. Just select several objects and click on "Link materials of selected objects" in Material widget.

At the moment, this feature is not implemented. But it is planned for the next ~2 months. Thanks for feedback, we'll try to increase its priority