No Raytrace option in X17

[Pat-CW2]

I just upgraded X16 to X17, now I don't see any way to raytrace. Any help would be great.

[Chrisb222]

13 minutes ago, Pat-CW2 said:

I just upgraded X16 to X17, now I don't see any way to raytrace. Any help would be great.

 

Do you mean CPU ray trace? If so yeah it's gone.

 

From X17 Help:

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The obsolete CPU Ray Tracing tool has been retired in favor of real-time GPU Ray Tracing. See GPU Ray Tracing.

 

[Pat-CW2]

I sure hope that doesn't mean I only have the PBR ability. That quality sucks

 

[Rich_Winsor]

                  I feel your pain.

 

[scottharris]

GPU ray tracing is the core rendering technology in X17; the CPU ray tracer was removed – info why in this post.  

 

If you want to improve your GPU ray tracing, here's a video 

https://www.chiefarchitect.com/videos/watch/1972/ray-tracing-gpu-lighting.html

[JonathanK]

19 hours ago, Pat-CW2 said:

I sure hope that doesn't mean I only have the PBR ability. That quality sucks

 

 

I'm curious...what are your issues with it?

 

The attached is OOTB settings with CA and the Physically Based camera (I did add lines in for clarity).  But you can see, I don't have a backdrop, I don't have a ton of lights, I spent very minimal time on setting the sun angle so it's physically accurate for the homeowner.  And all of the materials are generic CA materials.  Nothing special.  But the result looks very good and clean.  No light leakage like the past, no stray lighting, no weird reflections or overly reflective.

 

The Physically Based camera is very impressive compared to even the old "CPU Raytrace" method.

[HeidiMikalsen]

I was shocked when I upgraded from x16 to x17 and discovered that the Ray Trace ability is lost. My solution was to use RederAI to improve my pictures. Too bad that Chief goes back in development regarding photorealistic pictures.

 

 

original X17:

 

ReRenderAI:

 

ReRender AI with some more brightening.

Edited August 5 by HeidiMikalsen
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