[RELEASED] BOCS Shot - Photo Realistic Screen Shots

I installed. Saw the price. I deinstalled.

It tested E-Cycles against Octane in Blender in some car related scenarios with bigger environments for movie rendering and found no reason. Speeds are comparable.

I bake in Blender since several years now for Unity and Unreal and in terms of stability, scalability and performance there is no alternative.
Also used Beast, Enlighten and VRay.

Finally i am more than happy with Blender Cycles.
You can have a Full Featured Global Illumination preview in some seconds and bake a preview in one hour.
Than bake 4K and 8K over night, weekend or for big scenes up to one week in production quality.
Who cares when the bake result matches your preview you can have in some seconds.

Testwise i used up to 320 CPU Nodes and 20 GPU Nodes from company network.
For free. Time to install and get it run. 1day.

So you can fast iterate with realtime preview and bake it down flexible.

It s all about having clean pbr principled shader networks in Blender who output the Textures for Unity Standard Shaders (BuiltIN RP, HDRP) and in addition the lightmaps, combined bakes , ....

 

Could i replace the cycles.exe from BOCS Shot with an own build from an actual Blender 2.79 or 2.8 Cyles Standalone?

 

@keeponshading her do you have any images of a render you did with bocs which has a human char in it??

 

no. why you are asking?

 

I just wanted to see how good it is compared to other renders like IRAY.

 

You can recreate every cycles node graph material in bocs shot. So nearly everything google gives you under blender cycles is easy possible....
e.g.
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/05GxY


Another great way is to bake the the textures out before they reach the principled node in blender cycles.
e.g. with pbr texture bakery addon.

https://blendermarket.com/products/pbr-texture-bakery-for-cycles


To get fast started download this great model

There is a blender EEVEE and Cycles file.
Click on the charakter from cycles file and look at the cycles nodegraph. The complete file is pbr painted and modeled in cycles.

Open the eevee file and rebuild same nodegraph with same nodes from skin in bocs shot. Finished. Takes you around 1h of work and it renders in bocs shot in same quality.


I use similar method with little extensions.

Cool is that this one completly clones the substance painter and designer workflow in blender cycles and eevee. So its completly free.


As lesson three.
Download free Digital Emily textures and mesh
from
http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/DigitalEmily2/
and recreate the same cycles nodegraph from skin in bocs shot like shown here
https://www.blendernation.com/2015/08/27/skin-in-cycles-emily-2-1/
3h work.

So. Yes. Quality from iray is easy possible with bocs shot because it is blender cycles compiled as standalone.
Fed it with same nodes and textures. Get same result.



You simply can bring quality from neverending blender cycles community examples to Unity.

After this you should get an roughly idea why bocs shot and the bocs lightmapper would be the ultimate unity addons.

So for me

Long time ago i needed
3dsMax, Maya, VRAY, Mental Ray, Substance Designer and Painter, Nuke and Unity for this
Nearly every new release the pipeline broke.

Last years
Blender 50%,and Unity 50%
Blender never brokes the pipeline and has some benefits in price.

Future...
BocsShot and Lightmapper in Unity.
Blender 10% , Unity 90%
and would bring around min 500% speed up a more quality through faster iterations, FullFeaturedGI realtime preview in Unity and baking there.

Simply through working to the catwoman example you see everything you would need is to make every cycles output ready for realtime

1) geometrie and uv
2) bake inputs of principled shader with 1 sample in bocs shot to get the pbr textures. Needs only little channel swizzles to use in BuiltIn RP or HDRP Shaders.
3) bake material output of the material with the cycles bake function to get lightmaps (bocs lightmapper was nearly there)
and replace unity progessive or bakery lightmaps. Only shadowmask is useful from the other bakers.
4) create lightprobes and reflection probes
4) add post post processing. Unity ACES Tonemapper is similar to Blender Filmic.

You would have realtime preview of FullFeaturedGI in Viewport and after baking preview in minutes you could bake for production overnight or weekend reaching nearly the same quality in realtime you had have in a full featured GI path raytracer before in the realtime raytraced preview.

 

no, I had to modify it with some bug fixes and added normal map support and some custom commands etc.


@witcher101
sorry, I had to push a demo version down on my todo list...
If you need to see quality of renders, just look at any cycles renders...you should be able to recreate it.

 

Any estimated time??

 

Here is the full version...

Download:
http://bocs.site/files/BOCS Shot.unitypackage

if you find it useful buy it to support me.

 

Thank you will definitely buy it if its useful for me

 

For scene involving lot of objects it seems to produce a lot of noise. Anyway to reduce it.

 

increase the samples (which of course increases render time)
or
most likely the optix version would fix it...(unfinished/unreleased, but I do give it to customers that ask)

quick video:

 

Hi i find this issue
If i pose 2 chars in scene view either using animation or timeliine and use bcos shot to render char always comes in default T Pose

 

Does this works in playmode and timeline for movie rendering (At specified capture frame rate)?
Say for example, I'd want to render the Adam Demo using BOCS Shot after replacing all the shaders with cycles nodes at 24fps. (Maybe you should do this for promotional video! And comparison!)

 

can it be used for baking lightmap at runtime for my ingame level editor?

 

no, it does not have any lightmap baking features

 

@bocs What is the current status of the project? I don't seem to get it to work in Unity 2019.3. V1 works normally, but V2 doesn't render anything when I press Render in the Pool demo. There is no error or log or whatsoever. The cycles.exe seems to hang in the background.

 

Status: on hold

What video card are you using?
I don't think it's the Unity Version, I just tested 2019.4


See if CPU works...
1. Close any Bocs Shot render window
2. Open Edit -> Preferences
3. Change Compute Device to CPU
4. Try to render now

 

@Looooooooong - I was just able to test on a 2080, and confirmed my suspicions that the cuda kernels are not compatible with the newer cards. (The image above was on a 1080)

For now you can use the CPU, I will look into updating the kernels, but can't give a time frame.

 

@bocs I am using RTX 2070. I'm able to render using the CPU, so your suspicion might be right. Moreover, I have Intel HD Graphics as well, and there is a problem compiling OpenCL kernel for it where it would hand indefinitely when using LuxCoreRender 2.4. I don't know it this is a problem with Cycles render. If it does, you might have to add a multiple select box to select which device we want to render (CPU and GPU).