NVIDIA working on hardware acceleration for Mental Ray and ray tracing

[^Lele^]

eheh lovely to see at work, finally.
And a sneaky VRayIES light type visible for a few seconds under the VRay light types.
One simple question: what rig(s) was this captured on?
Was it rendering on the single PC, or DRing it out?

[sv]

just, wow, can't stop smiling watching this!
amazing.
can't wait - this will revolutionise the way I work.

Amazing stuff vlado.

Again, only questions are when will i be able to do this, and how many machines working together to produce that?

VrayIES....sweet...

[^Lele^]

...that may or may not use the GPU. It actually turns out that... it's just a matter of speed.

I read this as a mixed message.
Definitely not all in GPU (as far as raytracing is concerned), if speed for a given quality is the issue.

[sharpcube]

hey hey

hey hey , have you seen the other examples guys
there even more impressive

http://www.spot3d.com/vray_downloads...estA2_logo.wmv
http://www.spot3d.com/vray_downloads...estA3_logo.wmv
http://www.spot3d.com/vray_downloads...estA4_logo.wmv

[Neilg]

Hey vlado! I'm awesome at breaking things, so if you need anyone to help you break it and tell you how, I'm your man

[tct70]

Fantastic....................!!!!!

[mdi]

looks really cool.


one question though...

Could this be used to render previews for animations? So say I was working on an interior, could it be set up to render one frame in a user defined time period, say 10 secs per frame?

Or...could PPT be setup in much the same way, instead of having Subdivs could it be set up to use an amount of time instead?

[AJ Jefferies]

That is awesome.

[DrJan]

I pee'd myself AGAIN!
I'm running out of clothing...

Is there any idea when we can start ab... err.. using these features ourselves?

[re:FORM]

Wow... can't wait!
Great work vlado

[jujubee]

Wow that's amazing.

[vergefio]

Only one thing: W H E N !!


Really impressive

[Fekta.studio]

WOW, im lookig forward to this, is this v1.6 will be free upgrade?
How many DR (octas ) machines did u use in this test?
And can u reveal some more detail, about gets our hands on it (when)

once again amazing JOB, again Vray is a BIGGGG STEP FORWARD...

[bardo]

wowowowowow!!!!

really good...but...what's your hardware configuration??

And DR is supported...??

For when i suppose with SP1 when max2009 came out....but Chaos have last word on this.

Again...congratulations...

[dbuchhofer]

Looks like its come along nicely since last shown a refrence for what it was rendered on would be nice, but I can understand if you dont want to go to address the speed questions yet with beta stuff

A suggestion, or a 'it would be nice if:' Would it make sense to add a setting to allow the activeshade to update only the selected objects' viewport rect? sort of a region selected when only doing Material adjustments and there are no view/lighting changes? sort of a toggle-able setting to even more quickly adjust mats in an overall rough fashion?