parameters to add

[saudade]

- please add on-off shadow casting

- blurred refractions

- ambient occlusion

thanks!

[vlado]

- please add on-off shadow casting

Already done for the next build.

- blurred refractions

Already done for the next build.

- ambient occlusion

Which ambient occlusion? In the GI settings?

Best regards,
Vlado

[saudade]

yes...the same i saw in the Arion demo video
using a material override the image is really flat (in some cases)
ambient occlusion helps

don't forget two side area lights

btw,
analyzing some complex scenes with my Quadro CX I can say that you did a GREAT job, many COMPLIMENTS
My Quadro CX is 1,5 year old and has 192 cores and 1,5Gb...it's the only gpu I can use in medium complex scenes
I tested it in parallel with a Quadro 4600 with only 96 cores (768Mb) and a GTX 260 with 240 cores (1024Mb)
I think that all of us could plug a GTX480 in every farm and use them in DR mode because to build a workstation with 4 GTX480 striped could crash or be instable, except for Tesla certified systems
For fast animation previews RT GPU is incredible...

[Paul Oblomov]

Vlado, would be great to have turbosmooth rendetime settings work.

[saudade]

now I can use all my gpus tweaking the gpu texture size value and ray bundle size + rays per pixel parameter in complex scenes

the EVGA precision graphics tuning utility is a precious tool to understand how much the gpu ram is filled

considering I have a total of 528 cores with 3 Nvidia cards I can't immagine what happens if I use the RT GPU final version and almost 4 x 480GTX

and this is only the begin...

[Donald2B]

Just remember that the memory is NOT shared between the video cards. Think of each Video card as a stand alone computer. That seems to be a big misconception going around the GPU rendering sites.

[saudade]

that's why I want to buy many 460 with 2gigs, they cost 250€ each and with 500€ I get 672 cores and 2Gb of memory space...

With one single GTX 480 I have "only" 480 cores, 1.5Gb and 450€ to pay

one single Tesla C2050 cost 1.800€ and has only 448 cores...

I donno if memory-cores-shaders clocks are important for the rendering. Do I need more cores or more Mhz?

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Where do u see 450 for gtx ? They cost bargain 350 lol

Tesla got a lot more MGHZ per core mate... They at 1.150 if im not wrong.. where GTX is at 700-750 / oc 800¬

[saudade]

please add:

tiling (uv) on-off
I use this method to create a passepartout around a flat panel (pictures) or to apply a decal over an objects. I uncheck tile u and v, resize the texture, and use the colour of the material as background.

[vlado]

please add:

tiling (uv) on-off
I use this method to create a passepartout around a flat panel (pictures) or to apply a decal over an objects. I uncheck tile u and v, resize the texture, and use the colour of the material as background.

Yes, these should be easy, thanks for the pointer.

Best regards,
Vlado

[Donald2B]

tiling (uv) on-off

Wow! That is a great point, I too use that a LOT and it never crossed my mind. Great catch!

[saudade]

when SSS or double side material or translucency?

is it possible?

Vlado,
speaking about the adaptive displacement or instancing do you think that the OpenCL doesn't support it? is it a limit of gpu architecure? new Nvidia driver/firmware could implement this feature or we need new chips?


Best regards.

[vlado]

The double-sided material is coming soon;

As for displacement and instancing they are possible certainly - instancing being a lot easier - it is just a matter of time.

Best regards,
Vlado

[saudade]

wow!...this is a good news for me (us)

and in 2011 Kepler gpus will be 2,7 times faster...incredible...the curve is faster than the cpu performance increments...

[saudade]

next sampling level timer?