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"Funny thing.  Anamorphic effects are simple to do with the standard, non-physical 3dsmax camera, and a little maxscript.  Vray has a built in camera distortion and scaling  option, and can do anamorphic the correct way.  Vray might be the only "physical" camera I've seen that can do it.  None of the "true" physical renderers I've seen have this feature.  I'm going to check to see if Maxwell could do it, or Arnold.  Not that it will help you here, but just to see, since they are supposedly two of the most powerful physical engines.  Very interesting thread, Pumeco."

Yes, please post anything you find out, I'd love to know which renderers officially handle Anamorphics :-)

Doesn't matter whether it helps directly, and anyway, I absolutely love Anamorphic images and footage and could bore people to tears about it so nothing Anamorphic would be out of place here, and I agree, it's strange that the true physical renderers don't seem to cater for it.

That's pretty much the angle I used with Octane, I basically asked *"If Octane is physically based, then why can't I get Anamorphic renders out of it?" * Maybe the physical aspect is strictly down to the light and materials and doesn't include the virtual glass you're shooting through.