Awtsmoos said:
Not sure if this can be used in an octree, however, or of it would save size.

Yes it can and should be used.

Hypothetically if I'm not transforming the actual model itself it might be unnecessary to apply the world matrix to every vertex individually, maybe that would save time, or mayb…

@frob hmm, ill take a look. right now I think I'm making progress by doing LERP on the neighboring chunks that are not the same resolution

Server languages:

For servers, any language with garbage collection will end up causing pain that's hard to mitigate for a real-time system. That leaves us with the old-school languages (C, C++) and the newcomer Rust. (There are people who will point out “real-time incremental GC” type implementatio…

JoeJ said:
I did not want to integrate Mitsuba either, so wrote my own Pathtracer.

Well, if we are talking about reducing the amount of work then I already have a solution - use Arnold.