Autodesk acquires NURBS-based ray tracing technology

[glorybound]

I am not sure what this means, but I thought I would share.

http://gfxspeak.com/2011/08/25/autodesk-acquires-nurbs-base-ray-tracing-technology/

[vlado]

After the acquisition of VRed, it can mean only one thing...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Morbid Angel]

After the acquisition of VRed, it can mean only one thing...

It means soon people will scream - We want vray for vred!

Sorry I had to say that

[glorybound]

I take it, it is more for automotive design.

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Weird, Vred can Raytrace Nurbs data if I'm not wrong. Why would they want this stuff? :/

Unless Vred is hacking it and tesselating on the go. No idea.

Morbid Angel - yea I wish that would happen... Unfortunately Vred is pretty... "Special" in what its doing... been using it for a long time now.

[raymarcher]

The ditching of Iray?

After the acquisition of VRed, it can mean only one thing...

Best regards,
Vlado

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Vred engine in max ? Humh... Mental ray and Iray are going to die off very fast...

[s0real]

never heard of it before now - i just watched some of the video presentations on vimeo - it looks pretty impressive speedwise...

[samuel_bubat]

After the acquisition of VRed, it can mean only one thing...

Best regards,
Vlado

It will be patched together with numerous other technologies that don´t play well together.. it will be hyped for 2 years and than never touched again...
*yaaaawwnn...

no seriously... we totally don´t have any other way to render nurbs data smooth nowadays...

[trixian]

Was I dreaming, or did Vlado mention once that they were considering adding native nurb primitive support in vray a good while back?

[vlado]

Was I dreaming, or did Vlado mention once that they were considering adding native nurb primitive support in vray a good while back?

I don't think so... we have never focused on that specifically. We do have a NURBS tesselator in V-Ray for Maya, but it is not intended for professional results.

Best regards,
Vlado

[trixian]

Are you sure? I specifically remember we talked about this while sitting on the beach with the little midget on the tricycle........surely that was real...