1024 lights

[vlado]

Just a simple to see what would actually happen with 1024 area lights in a scene Probably not the fastest thing on earth, but it does render, surprisingly...



Best regards,
Vlado

[siliconbauhaus]

whats the significance of 1024 then Vlado ?

[vlado]

I don't know, I picked that number because it's the closest square to 1000... 32 x 32 = 1024

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

my eyes hurt when looking at this
this reminds me of the brazil 2 test where it rendered 16 million polys of some statue copied many times like this in 2 min....

[DaForce]

A pity you couldnt get all the lights in the render... not 1024 now is it

Pretty impressive tho

[vlado]

A pity you couldnt get all the lights in the render... not 1024 now is it

Pretty impressive tho

You mean that not all of them are visible? That's right, but still, every single light in the scene affects the whole scene, so all the lights had to be taken into consideration... a light source doesn't have to be visible itself to see it's effect - you can see highlights from all sources on the spheres.

Best regards,
Vlado

[DaForce]

yeah I know ... was just being silly.

[Gijs]

Interesting. I know this is just a test to search for limits, but I am wondering, could a similar rendering like this be produced by replacing all those lights with a single mapped light and produce the same result in a fraction of the time?

Anyhow, it seems Vray is not optimized for this kind of stuff, maybe another option would be a light mat array with a portal in front of it (I'm just typing while thinking here)

[natty]

yeah I know ... was just being silly.

Stop being silly Lieth :P

[DaForce]

Sorry ... cant do that ntaty

[natty]

heheheh .......sorry !! Leith

[suurland]

Vlado have you done any changes to vray since you are doing this test? Right now just using 2 or 3 area lights slows things down a lot compared to having one light which is really annoying.

/Thomas

[DaForce]

no problem mate.. just teasing

[pshupe68]

What are your computer specs? Vlado. That seems pretty fast for a test like that!

Same number of spheres? Glossy reflects?

Ciao Peter.