gpu renderer

[roppin]

what do you say about this? Im planing, stop teaching and have to look for a nother way of rendering my work when not having the load of 3 computer labs

http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/index.htm

/daniel

[n6]

Did you look at the rendering time!! they are very high compared with VRay...


4 mins to render this teapot with only an HDR environement....

[n6]

here is a test I previously made with an other "real time" engine called XRadiance. As you can see render time are ridiculous compared with VRay :

XRADIANCE : Render time 2mins 30 s






and near the same scene with VRay : Render time 0 min 12 s....

[roppin]

I allso tryed the gpu tech software. I cant se how they can call it broadcast quality.

bout Panthenon. I think its promising. There were som other examples as well and the glossy looks good

//Daniel

[roppin]

and check this animation. Its very flicker free 72 sec/frame

http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/ghappy.html

daniel

[CCS]

Anyone following the progress of Busy Ray?

[samuel_bubat]

The partheon renderer is quite impressive.
And I think the rendertimes are really fast.
Take a look at this example
http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/sshot.html
50sec per frame . If it is lit (I suppose) by pure HDR
Lighting, dynamic, flickerfree, antialiasing.. than these are very impressive rendertimes !

If this is a debevec hdr in this example (I´m quite shure it´s the kitchen probe) wich has a dynamic range of 2000:1 and they really
didn´t use any spotlights in there... (i know a lot of "if´s" )
than I bet that the vray rendertimes are at least 5 times higher to make
a splotchfree animation similar to those shown in the example.
(Also notice the quite sharp GI Shadows)

sounds like a challenge !!

of course if this renderer is ready for a real production or not is a completely different question.

[travistlo]

Anyone following the progress of Busy Ray?

sort of...i dont test it Im waiting to see what they accomplish, but I dont think it will be much. Compared to Maxwell they have a lot of work to do. And it will never be as fast as vray because is a brute force type solutio.

[mike.edel]

have you guys seen nvidia's gelato?
looks impressive, too
http://film.nvidia.com/page/gelato.html
mix of hardware and software rendering

[n6]

The partheon renderer is quite impressive.
And I think the rendertimes are really fast.
Take a look at this example
http://www.bee-www.com/parthenon/sshot.html
50sec per frame . If it is lit (I suppose) by pure HDR
Lighting, dynamic, flickerfree, antialiasing.. than these are very impressive rendertimes !

If this is a debevec hdr in this example (I´m quite shure it´s the kitchen probe) wich has a dynamic range of 2000:1 and they really
didn´t use any spotlights in there... (i know a lot of "if´s" )
than I bet that the vray rendertimes are at least 5 times higher to make
a splotchfree animation similar to those shown in the example.
(Also notice the quite sharp GI Shadows)

sounds like a challenge !!

of course if this renderer is ready for a real production or not is a completely different question.

maybe is there true GI lighting but it is 100% sure that they fake sharp shadows with spots light placed and based on the HDR envirnment color and luminance. Also after few tests, I can say that their "glossy refect" is for sure "glossy" but doesnt reflect true HDR value luminance.

[roppin]

but hay. This is early alpha or something, some of You are so negative, I remember when I waited all night for a alpha brazil rendering. I want the progres of mankind to spinoff in my direction. the renderings are impressive and I dont feel that I have to protect my investment in vray because of it...

just to express my promiscuous rendering behaviour I confess I go to the Maxwell forum every day to see what they have so manifestively rendered for the last three days. I allso have to admit I pop in to the finalrender forum. allthough I know it will look bad in my cv.

//DW