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[Roy Hirshkowitz]

• Work continues on Engine 4.  I made a bunch of "improvements" in this round.  I like the direction this is heading.
• The Preparing Rendering phase of the pre-process should go faster for the Path Tracer and the new engines.  Packet Tracer is unaffected by this change.

[akinlolu olugboji]

Five hours overnight and 4000 passes an almost perfectly resolved engine 4 kitchen.

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Mario-- the displacements are killing this one.  I still haven't investigated to see if something is going wrong or if this is expected behavior (I suspect it is).  Changing the displacements to bump, turning off the two light sources (not helping and a major source of fireflies), and changing the ceramic and water materials a little, yielded the following (converged quickly--except for the sink which still needs more work):

With the direct sun off (just the sky):

[Roy Hirshkowitz]

Did some quick checking-- there's definitely something wrong with displacements in this engine.