New renderer

[Ramsay]

Looks interesting... mot too sure about the gallery images though:

http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/hypershot.html

[thablanch]

Hummm...

In gallery/ images, aerospace, what I see there should Not be there. I will dig a little to find who uses this geometry....

[Jonferimonic]

"HyperShot is the most flexible, fast, accurate, highest quality tool on the market today – quite simply, peerless"

Are these guys f*ckin joking?

Import your 3d model, apply materials with one click and hit render!

"HyperShot renders quickly without digital specialists"

Looks like im out of a job then.

[^Lele^]

Well i tried it.
It's all good for a demo.

When one tries to achieve the kind of accuracy we are used to with VRay, it falls apart (literally: oversample and it crashes.).

Long live hardware-independent raytracers, thanks a lot.

Edit: from the demo i had, it seems they moved it from GPUs to CPUs.
The issues remain, though.
Check in the aerospace gallery image 4 and 7.
Where sharp corners meet (fuselage and top compartments in number 4, vertical panles and ground in 7) you will notice streaks.
I could not let them go away, no matter how hard i tried.
It seems to be due to shadows and GI sampling.
Raising the quality kills the app, memory-wise, and leads to crashes. EVERY time.

[thablanch]

So, Lele, you put the images of the aerospace in, can I ask you where you got theses models from...

[^Lele^]

nono, they had a demo a while back (three months or so?).
I simply tried it on the models of a chair and few other small demo things they had.
Still, the contact GI shadows were bad, and streaked, exhibiting the issues you can see in the aerospace images (which i checked because of your post ).
I have no idea where they got the models from, tbh.

EDIT: here's the demo link:
http://www.bunkspeed.com/hypershot/demo.html

[^Lele^]

so to explain:

the default image as i load it and let it render (quickly by all means!). no matter how much i let it refine, it won't clean up those issues through the interactive renderer.


so i turn to the final renderer, after having upped the shadow quality for the interactive one.
with these settings, this i s what i get on xp 64 with 2 gb of ram:


And this:


and finally this. Notice how upping the shadow quality in the interactive renderer only leads to smaller "dots", not to a better interpolation (as seen in the zoomed bit).


As i said previously, it sure is quick.
As i said WRONGLY before, it's CPU, NOT GPU based.
Do not pretend VRay's flexibility or precision from it yet, though.

[thablanch]

Sorry I misunderstood you, Lele

[SonOfNimrod]

well, looks like this is in the same vein as alias's image studio, and not really a direct competitor to v-ray or such.

just simplifies the visualization process for less complex scenes