
Your self description sounds like Houdini fits your profile exactly, though.
Soothsayer
There's tilting in the physical lens shader but it only seems to affect the focus plane, so maybe not that useful in your case, however it shows that perhaps the desired outcome can be built with a lens shader.
vinkNot that bad at all!
I prepare similar scene in RS, not 1:1 copy but for redshift. Uses same Rhino Geo.
on my 2070 Super + 1070 Ti I have 31 sec.bollili
I know it would be unfair, obviously. But, just out of interesst...
Has anybody of you the possibility to compare the current state of karma xpu to redshift or its competitors, speed wise?