V-Ray 3 SP3 sneak peek

[vlado]

Oh, and another question: Are these goodies mainly for progressive sampling?

No, they affect the bucket renderer as well.

(aka super easy render-and-forget-settings)

<shrug> If that's what people like and want, I'd better make sure that they have it, right?

Best regards,
Vlado

[3LP]

And you deliver

Stan

[kosso_olli]

And you deliver

Stan

I should start to deliver some beer to the Chaos-Team as a big thanks for all the effort! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[AndresAhumada]

Buuu the new build not sympathize with itoo products.

[glorybound]

Will this SP be officially announced? If so, how?

[WilleViz]

No, they affect the bucket renderer as well.

Just awesome, thanks. With the improvements to the progressive render in SP3, I might start using it more. Really looking forward to the preview and testing it!

<shrug> If that's what people like and want, I'd better make sure that they have it, right?

Best regards,
Vlado

Vray is IMHO the most feature rich and powerful render by a long shot, so improved ease of use just makes it even easier to recommend to new users.

[vlado]

Buuu the new build not sympathize with itoo products.

Thanks for the pointer - will fix it.

Best regards,
Vlado

[^Lele^]

Will this SP be officially announced? If so, how?

There will soon (really, soon.) be an open beta.
I suppose the "announcements" thread is the one to watch for that.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Great work Lele and Vlado!!!! and the team of course
If i read the images right we will be getting double speed gain OR 2x better quality for the comparable amount of time as in SP2 !!!! AMAZING!

I do think the simplification is the key.
In our environment where we produce 5-6 differen interior images a week, there is no time for scene optimisations.
Its much easier to let computers run for two more hours than spend those 2 hours optimising and testing.

Looking forward to working with sp3!

thanks!
Martin

[^Lele^]

Great work Lele and Vlado!!!! and the team of course

I only posted the results, pretty much. For that, you're welcome.

If i read the images right we will be getting double speed gain OR 2x better quality for the comparable amount of time as in SP2 !!!! AMAZING!

For those specific images, yes, you read it right.
There is NO guarantee of similar performance across the board, however: DO NOT EXPECT speed boosts. ^^

I do think the simplification is the key.
In our environment where we produce 5-6 differen interior images a week, there is no time for scene optimisations.

The times, they are a'changing.
Both hardware and humans got better at this (check out that sick comparison of vray 1.x versus 3.x rendering the same scene), while clients demand more, sooner, better looking.
Adaptation is key to survival...
So, no speed boosts, but nearly no setup time: do your look development (if it is assigning materials off libraries), reset the vray settings, render.
Don't like the quality? Lower Noise Threshold for linear quality increments and speed decrements.
Done.

Its much easier to let computers run for two more hours than spend those 2 hours optimising and testing.

Hopefully they'll have to run for just about the same time as they did before. SURELY not quicker!

In fairness, this does come at a price: old scenes brought up to SP3 WILL render with differences in lightning and very likely AA, and so render times.
Conversion WILL require adjusting noise thresholds to achieve similar (but never quite identical) results.
Of course, an old scene will stay as it was, and render the same as it did, if the user doesn't do a thing.

[Oleg_Budeanu]

This looks really promising !
And it is good that tests are done on common situation for us as we can see how it will work on our end !
I am interested also if the problem with transfer missing assets checkbox and textures getting higher gamma on different nodes being solved ? For now the solution is to use VRayHDRI map with a bitmap in it , but i hope that is a temporary thing.
Really like how it looks now, samples are being distributed very logical way. Also as i understand this is on "new" standard settings with only noise thresh adjusted ?
Cheers guys , really good news !

[Laserschwert]

Could you post a screenshot of how the raytraced rounded corners feature works, and what options it has? IF it is in the build you're using...

[^Lele^]

Sure, a quick test from the beta forums.
Rendertime is identical (minus one bump map calculation, ofc.)

[kosso_olli]

Lele,
the objects have to intersect for this, right? Very often I get rims on cars that are split in two parts: One for the rim itself, another one for the radially spun pattern on the face. They are modeled in a way that it looks like one part, but they are two. Without sharing any edges or vertices. Will the rounded corners feature work in these cases, too?

[^Lele^]