Rendering in the Cloud

[glorybound]

that would be wonderful, and hopefully soon.

[dlparisi]

Thanks Bobby. Interesting to see how useful it would be on an actual project when you consider upload times, local renderfarm, cloud renderfarm load, etc.

[glorybound]

here is a screen grab showing "Render in Cloud". I'll now do the render on my workstation, which I'll post the specs, too.

[peterguthrie]

basically, Revit users, can render crap faster.

great line

[glorybound]

great line

Thanks Peter . BTW.... how can I get mention on your blog? ,and not necessarily for that quote

[glorybound]

Okay... here are two screen grabs showing both renders. The cloud took just over 3 minutes, and the local took over 1 hr and 45 minutes.

[dlparisi]

Thanks again. That's quite a speed improvement but I really can't believe it took 105 minutes for that POS render.

[glorybound]

Revit doesn't support multi-core, so it'll be slow. The speed, and quality, flashes me back to the early 90's.

[dlparisi]

Revit doesn't support multi-core, so it'll be slow. The speed, and quality, flashes me back to the early 90's.

No multicore??? That's what reminds me of the early 90's. A 105 minute render back then would have still been a long one (at least for me) and considering it was ~20 years ago it would only take a minute or so to get that quality now (honestly a huge guess that processors are about 100x faster).

[glorybound]

Here are some images I did in the early 90's, and they would take a day to render.



Hold that thought on Revit and Multi-core processing. I'll do some research, it might have changed in the last several releases.

[glorybound]

it looks like it does support multi-core processing, but I only saw one bucket at render time. During the pre-pass I see all my buckets.

http://wikihelp.autodesk.com/Revit/e...ocess_in_Revit

[glorybound]

and this panoramic render took about 4 minutes to render, in the cloud.

http://screencast.com/t/Pk1ANcnt

[dlparisi]

Can't believe you still have those images. It would take me quite a while to get some images from then (floppy, zip, ????).

[peterguthrie]

brave man posting images from the 90s! I wonder if I have any... i might have something from about 1997-8. They probably all have lens flares on them

[glorybound]

I have an old portfolio om my shelf. I scanned the hard copy.