What do you guys think? If I recall correctly, the firefly renderer and material nodes systems are not Curious Lab's. They are licencing the technology. Any changes CL wants will have to be submitted to the owner of the renderer. If I understand what your asking for correctly, such a change would be rather significant amount of programing and would probably exceed the amount of work they would put into a SR1. Service releases usually concentrate on things that are broken, not adding features.

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