VRay SDK, VRenderLight

[Karba]

VRayLightMesh + reflection max depth 1

New Light

[vlado]

Very cool

Best regards,
Vlado

[claude_tnt]

i have a question, with the dawn of the gpu age upon us.. won't this plugin be obsolete within a short period of time...
i am not going to squibble about a few seconds/minutes longer to render and image, as compared to a few hours as is happening now....

davis

[vlado]

Nope, I don't think CPUs are going away any time soon. Even with the GPU renderers, you might have to wait quite a bit longer compared to a biased, but fast, CPU render.

Best regards,
Vlado

[duke2]

Nope, I don't think CPUs are going away any time soon. Even with the GPU renderers, you might have to wait quite a bit longer compared to a biased, but fast, CPU render.

Best regards,
Vlado

Particularly where memory is concerned (large and many textures, displacement and proxy meshes, etc.).

Vlado I think you should wear rollerskates too!

[bardo]

karba, I've imported your comparison images into photoshop to test with "difference" mode your results.

There are some differences around the highlights nearest the light sources.

There is also a "strange" behaviour with the reflection because if you compare them in photoshop you should see that your reflection seem shifted.

After this, I like very much your time result and especially the noise free light reflections.

Good job

One last question: the bad antialiasing around lights is due to high light multiplier or low Antialias sampler settings??


EDIT: I've attached the "difference mode" image from photoshop

[Karba]

bad antialiasing is because of high brightness.
About shift of light reflection - I don't know, why it is.
Another test of complex light geometry

[Karba]

MB support

[Geddart]

Wow, very nice. This looks so interesting and generally usefull that this should actually going to end up in regular vray, shouldn't it?

[super gnu]

so whatever happened to this? ive noted on rendering.ru its not listed in the plugins for sale, so im guessing its either on the back- burner, or somebody has incorporated it into vray?

[anchovy]

Yep Im interested to hear how this is coming along!

-Michael

[Dariusz Makowski (Dadal)]

Digging up

Any news on this plugin ?

[cecofuli]

Up =) After one years... no news! The plug-in was so nice. And yes, VRay is so sloooow when, for example, in the interior project you have a lot of lights!!!
Or Chaosgroup start to own light speed-up =) Because I don't understand if Karba can, Chaos cannot ^__^

[simmsimaging]

Didn't Karba go to work for Octane render? Maybe that's why the Vray plugin development has been slower?

/b

[cecofuli]

Mmm... yes, I remember this. But slower is not the correct word. The Vray plugin development is down. Same for Multiscatter... It's sad. I remember when Karba show a WIP about Multiscatter library etc...
Doesn't matter. Chaosgroup can be develops some similar light concept. IT would be a huge success over the other engine 5 time faster is an incredible speed-up!