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Shaders

• BDTFs (eg. dielectric)
• Create glass BSDF, combining BRDF/BTDF -- dependent on coshader support
• Choice of shadow types (raytraced/shadow map)
• Adaptive sampling in integrator
• QMC/low-discrepancy random number sampling
• Additional glossy distribution functions eg. GGX, Beckmann
• Solid angle -> filter region calculation for texture lookups
• Texturable brdf properties (eg. roughness)
• Point cloud methods:

• caching illumination, to be read on secondary ray hits rather than shading
• or older-style reading radiance directly from point cloud

• Optimisations:

• Benchmark/check different methods of sampling, eg. batching vs calling shader methods directly

Addon

• Catch permission errors, writing to material preview folder
• Point cloud issues on Windows http://seliverstoff.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/renderman_25.html